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🚀 Amazon EC2 C8i instances are now available in the Europe (Stockholm) region. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, offering up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances. C8i delivers up to 20% higher performance than C7i and provides larger sizes, including a new 96xlarge and two bare metal options. Purchase options include Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) are available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. C7i instances offer up to 15% better price-performance than C6i, larger instance sizes up to 48xlarge, and two bare metal sizes with built-in Intel accelerators. They support Intel AMX, and permit up to 128 EBS volumes per instance to scale data-intensive workloads.

⚙️ AWS has launched Storage optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the Europe (Paris) region, powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs. These instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and over 10% improved price performance versus I4i, with up to 45TB NVMe storage and significant reductions in storage I/O latency and variability. I7i supports torn write prevention up to 16KB and comes in eleven sizes, including bare metal options, with up to 100Gbps network and 60Gbps EBS bandwidth.

🔒 Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East), enabling government and regulated-industry customers to reserve GPU capacity for machine learning workloads. The service lets customers reserve GPU instances in advance for defined durations, providing assured access to accelerated compute for pre-training, fine-tuning, rapid prototyping, and surge inference. Reservations can be made up to eight weeks ahead for durations up to six months, in clusters of one to 64 instances, and can be shared across accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager.

🔥 Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-8TB instances (u7i-8tb.112xlarge) are now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. These 7th-generation U7i instances are powered by custom 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors and provide 8 TiB of DDR5 memory for scaling transaction processing throughput. They deliver 448 vCPUs, up to 100 Gbps EBS and network bandwidth, ENA Express, and up to 45% better price performance versus U-1 instances. U7i instances are targeted at mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🔔 Amazon EC2 Future-dated Capacity Reservations now support cancellation, allowing customers to secure capacity up to 120 days in advance and cancel if plans change. Depending on timing, a cancellation charge may apply; when it does, EC2 provides a quoted charge for review and acceptance before cancellation completes. Cancellation charges are reportable in the AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) 2.0 under a new Capacity Reservation Status value. The feature is available to all Future-dated Capacity Reservation customers, with regional availability listed on the AWS Capabilities by Region site and further details in the Capacity Reservation user guide.

🔍 Amazon VPC Flow Logs now supports EC2 resource tag embedding and next-hop interface metadata to simplify network monitoring and troubleshooting. With tag support you can include values from network interfaces, EC2 instances, and Auto Scaling groups, removing the need to join log data with external tag metadata. Next-hop metadata captures interface ID, subnet, AZ, VPC, and interface type to clarify traffic paths through NAT Gateways, NLBs, and Transit Gateways.

🚀 Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now generally available. M9g targets general-purpose workloads and agentic AI tasks, while M9gd adds local NVMe SSD storage for low-latency, high-throughput use cases. These instances offer up to 25% better compute performance over Graviton4-based M8g/M8gd and deliver sizable gains for databases, web apps, and ML. They run on the sixth-generation Nitro System and introduce the Nitro Isolation Engine for formally verified workload isolation.

🚀 Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. These instances deliver up to 2x performance versus P5en for AI training and inference, with 8 GPUs and 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory. They include 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, a 60% boost in GPU memory bandwidth, up to 3.2 Tbps EFAv4 networking, and run on the AWS Nitro System for secure scaling.

🚀 AWS has launched general availability for metal-48xl and metal-96xl sizes across several M8 and R8 EC2 instance families powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest AWS Nitro cards. These new sizes offer up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU over prior generations and deliver up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth or up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth depending on the variant. Selected sizes support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for lower latency in tightly coupled clusters and the metal sizes are initially available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia) region.

🔧 AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) is now available in all commercial AWS Regions except Israel (Tel Aviv), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), and Asia Pacific (Auckland). LMI lets you run Lambda functions on managed Amazon EC2 instances to access specialized compute configurations and EC2 pricing benefits while maintaining Lambda's operational simplicity. It fully manages instance lifecycle, OS and runtime patching, routing, load balancing, and auto-scaling, and supports parallel request processing per execution environment. Customers can leverage EC2 pricing models such as Compute Savings Plans and Reserved Instances and integrate LMI with existing Lambda workflows, event sources, and observability tools.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8in instances are now available in additional AWS regions including Asia Pacific (Sydney, Singapore, Malaysia) and Europe (Frankfurt). These instances use custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors exclusive to AWS and the latest sixth-generation AWS Nitro cards, offering up to 43% higher performance versus C6in. C8in supports sizes up to 384 vCPUs and 600 Gbps networking, targeting network-intensive distributed compute and large-scale analytics. They are offered via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🚀Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i‑flex instances are available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, these instances deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel cloud processors. They provide up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based generations, plus up to 20% higher performance than M7i variants with specific workloads seeing larger gains. M8i‑flex targets common general-purpose sizes from large to 16xlarge, while M8i offers 13 SAP-certified sizes including bare metal and a new 96xlarge for large-scale applications.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8azn instances are available in Europe (Ireland). These general-purpose, high-frequency instances use fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors and deliver up to 5 GHz in the cloud, with up to 2x compute performance over M5zn and up to 24% higher performance than M8a. They provide higher memory bandwidth, larger L3 cache, and improved networking and EBS throughput, and come in nine sizes including bare metal options.

🔔 Starting today, Amazon EC2 X8i instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS and are SAP-certified, offering up to 43% higher performance, 1.5x more memory capacity (up to 6TB) and 3.3x more memory bandwidth versus X2i instances. X8i targets memory-intensive workloads like SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics and EDA, with 14 sizes and two bare metal options.

🚀 Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i‑flex instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US‑East). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors unique to AWS, they deliver up to 15% better price‑performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel‑based instances, and up to 20% better performance than M7i generations. M8i‑flex targets common general‑purpose sizes while M8i supports larger and SAP‑certified workloads including new 96xlarge and bare‑metal options.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i‑flex instances are available in AWS GovCloud (US‑East), powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors unique to AWS. These instances deliver up to 15% better price‑performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel‑based generations, plus up to 20% higher performance than R7i instances. R8i‑flex provides memory‑optimized Flex sizes from large to 16xlarge for common memory‑heavy workloads, while R8i offers 13 sizes including bare metal and a new 96xlarge for very large or CPU‑intensive applications.

🟦 Amazon EC2 C7i-flex, M7i-flex, and M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. These custom AWS-only processors deliver up to 15% better performance versus comparable x86 Intel processors used by other clouds. C7i-flex and M7i-flex provide up to 19% improved price-performance for common general-purpose workloads, while M7i offers up to 15% price-performance gains and larger sizes including bare metal with Intel accelerators.

🔒 Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports mounting Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes to containers in AWS GovCloud Regions. This lets you deploy storage- and data-intensive workloads such as ETL, media transcoding, and ML inference using serverless containers. With EBS task attachment ECS can provision, manage, format or use snapshots automatically. Support is available for EC2, Fargate, and Managed Instances launch types.

🚀 AWS announces general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye, bringing compute, storage, networking, and select services closer to end users. The Local Zone supports Amazon EC2 (C7i, M7i, R7i), Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access, Amazon EBS (local snapshots and gp3/gp2/io1/sc1/st1), Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, VPC, AWS Direct Connect, and Application Load Balancer. To enable, turn on the zone (eu-central-1-ist-1a) in the EC2 console or use the ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup API to reduce latency and meet data residency needs.