All news with #aws ec2 tag

🔁 Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows terminating up to 100 instances with a single TerminateInstanceInAutoScalingGroup API call, reducing API request volume when scaling down. Batch termination is intended for rapid scale-down scenarios like AI/ML training, container orchestrators, or event-driven fleets and validates all instances atomically before proceeding. Existing Auto Scaling behaviors such as lifecycle hooks and load balancer connection draining remain enforced for each instance. The capability is available in all AWS Regions at no additional cost.

🚀 Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i‑flex instances are now available in the Canada West (Calgary) region. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, offering up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances. R8i provides large sizes including 96xlarge and SAP certification; R8i‑flex offers common memory‑optimized sizes from large to 16xlarge. Purchase options include Savings Plans, On‑Demand, and Spot.

🔍 AWS now includes Local Zones in Spot placement score, enabling customers to identify where Spot capacity requests are most likely to succeed. The feature evaluates target capacity and compute requirements and returns scores for Regions or Availability Zones. Previously, Local Zone capacity was excluded from zonal and regional scores; inclusion is now optional and expands Spot capacity visibility. Spot placement score is available via the EC2 Spot Console, AWS CLI, and SDK.

🚀 Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Canada (Central). These instances use 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors with up to 4.5 GHz and deliver up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance versus R7a. Built on the AWS Nitro System with sixth generation Nitro Cards, R8a offers 12 sizes (including 2 bare metal) and is SAP-certified.

🔷 Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) instances are now available in the AWS South America (São Paulo) region. These U7i instances are part of the AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors. They provide 24 TiB DDR5 memory, 896 vCPUs, up to 200 Gbps networking and 100 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and support ENA Express. U7i instances target mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🛠️ Amazon EC2 now offers application status checks that detect application-level failures such as web servers not accepting requests, stopped Docker daemons, or broken networking. Customers specify protocol, port, path, and healthy response codes to create checks, then associate them with instances by ID or tag. EC2 sends HTTP/HTTPS probes every 60 seconds and reports application health alongside existing instance and system checks, enabling Auto Scaling groups to replace instances flagged as unhealthy. This feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US).

🆕 Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in Europe (Milan), powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS. These instances provide up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, plus up to 20% higher performance than R7i. R8i-flex offers common memory-optimized sizes for cost-efficient workloads, while R8i includes 13 sizes, two bare metal options, and a 96xlarge for the largest applications, with SAP certification and 142,100 aSAPS.

⚙️ Amazon GameLift Servers now supports 21 additional EC2 instance types for managed EC2 and container fleets. The expansion covers compute-optimized C-series (C8a, C8i, C9g) and general-purpose M-series (M8a, M8i, M9g), offering x86 and Arm architectures. Customers can choose processors including 5th-gen AMD EPYC, custom Intel Xeon 6, or AWS Graviton5 to balance performance, cost, and engine compatibility.

🚀 Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports fractional GPU scheduling on Amazon EC2 G6f instances, allowing containers to request GPU partitions as small as one-eighth of an NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPU (3 GB). This enables cost-efficient runs for small-model AI inference, model experimentation, and graphics rendering by right-sizing GPU resources. Configure fractional GPUs by setting GPU=0.125, GPU=0.25, or GPU=0.5 in your ECS task definition; support is available on ECS Managed Instances and ECS on EC2 with integrated monitoring and automated instance lifecycle handling.

🚀 Amazon EC2 G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs are now available in the Europe (Spain) Region. G7 delivers up to 4.6x AI inference and up to 2.1x graphics performance versus G6, with faster GPU-accelerated analytics. Instances offer up to 8 GPUs (32 GB each), custom Intel Xeon 6 CPUs, up to 192 vCPUs, 768 GiB memory, 700 Gbps EFA, and 7.6 TB NVMe local storage. G7s are available as On-Demand, Spot, and Savings Plans in four regions today.

🚀 Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced general availability of runtime instances for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, enabling agents to run on customer-managed EC2 instances without manual infrastructure management. The feature complements existing microVM-based runtimes and supports diverse EC2 families including GPU-accelerated, memory-optimized, and compute-optimized types. Runtime instances allow long-running agent sessions up to 14 days and integrate with the AWS Console, CLI, SDKs, and APIs to create capacity providers and attach agents. Availability spans multiple regions and billing includes EC2 costs plus management fees, with documentation and pricing details provided by AWS.

🚀 Amazon EC2 M8g instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) and AWS Mexico (Central). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, they deliver up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based instances and are suited for general-purpose workloads like application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets. Built on the AWS Nitro System, M8g instances offer improved performance and security.

🚀 Amazon EMR on EC2 now supports interactive Apache Spark sessions via Spark Connect, enabling data engineers and scientists to develop and debug Spark applications from managed notebooks in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio or from IDEs like Jupyter and VS Code. Each interactive session runs on a dedicated EMR on EC2 cluster, and users can monitor and debug active and completed sessions through the EMR console. The feature offers persistent Spark contexts across cells, a client-server architecture that decouples clients from the Spark driver, and real-time observability through the Spark UI and History Server.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8g instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, are now available in AWS Europe (Paris), AWS Africa (Cape Town), AWS Israel (Tel Aviv), and AWS Canada West (Calgary). These compute-optimized instances deliver up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based instances and are built on the AWS Nitro System to improve performance and security. C8g offers 12 sizes, including bare metal, enhanced networking up to 50 Gbps, and up to 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth for compute-intensive workloads.

🔧 Amazon announces general availability of Amazon EC2 Storage Optimized I8g instances in AWS Europe (Paris) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta). Powered by AWS Graviton4, I8g delivers leading compute for storage-intensive workloads using third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs that improve storage throughput and reduce latency versus I4g. Built on the AWS Nitro System, these instances offer enhanced performance and security for I/O-intensive databases, analytics, and AI preprocessing.

🚀 AWS has launched Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions. Powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i delivers up to 23% better compute and >10% improved price performance over I4i. These instances offer up to 45TB NVMe, reduced storage latency and variability, torn write prevention for up to 16KB blocks, and up to 100Gbps network bandwidth across multiple sizes.

🚀 AWS CodeDeploy is now available in five additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central). The fully managed deployment service automates application rollouts to Amazon EC2, on-premises servers, AWS Lambda, and Amazon ECS, enabling lower latency and helping meet data residency needs for customers in these regions. CodeDeploy now operates across 34 commercial regions plus AWS GovCloud (US) and the AWS China Regions.

🔧 Starting today, Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) are available in Europe (Milan). These AWS-exclusive processors deliver up to 15% better performance compared to comparable x86 Intel processors used by other providers. C7i-flex offers improved price-performance—up to 19% better than C6i—and supports sizes from large to 16xlarge for common compute-intensive workloads.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C7i instances, powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids), are now available in Europe (Milan) and Canada West (Calgary). These AWS‑exclusive processors deliver up to 15% better performance than comparable x86 Intel processors used by other cloud providers. C7i instances provide up to 15% improved price-performance versus C6i, larger instance sizes up to 48xlarge, and two bare‑metal sizes with built‑in Intel accelerators for data and compute offload.

🔔 Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh as a CloudFormation update policy. When you set the new AutoScalingInstanceRefresh update policy and change properties that require replacement, CloudFormation will automatically trigger an Instance Refresh. The integration includes features such as replace root volume for in-place updates, launch-before-terminate, alarm-based monitoring, and checkpoints with bake time for controlled rollouts. Rollback is managed through CloudFormation stack rollback, and the capability is available in all AWS Regions at no additional cost.