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🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched EC2 High Memory U7i instances in AWS Europe (Milan), introducing u7i-8tb.112xlarge with 8 TiB DDR5 and u7i-12tb.224xlarge with 12 TiB DDR5 memory. These instances are powered by custom 4th‑generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors and deliver 448 and 896 vCPUs respectively. Both sizes support up to 100 Gbps for Amazon EBS and networking and include ENA Express, making them well suited for mission‑critical in‑memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🚀 AWS has expanded availability of I7ie Amazon EC2 instances to seven additional regions, targeting large storage I/O–intensive workloads. I7ie instances are powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors (3.2 GHz all-core turbo), provide up to 120 TB local NVMe storage density and up to twice the vCPUs and memory of prior generations. Using 3rd-generation AWS Nitro SSDs, they deliver lower latency and improved real-time storage performance and are offered in nine sizes with up to 100 Gbps networking and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth.

🔁 AWS now allows customers to use EC2 Fleet to consume interruptible Capacity Reservations by specifying reservation IDs across Launch Templates in a single Fleet call. When On‑Demand Capacity Reservations are idle, owners can make them temporarily available to accounts within an AWS Organization as interruptible reservations. The capability is available in all AWS commercial regions and aims to improve utilization and lower costs.

⚡ AWS now supports NVIDIA Inference Xfer Library (NIXL) with Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on all EFA-enabled EC2 instances and regions. This integration accelerates disaggregated LLM inference by increasing KV-cache throughput, lowering inter-token latency, and optimizing KV-cache memory use between prefill and decode nodes. NIXL interoperates with frameworks such as NVIDIA Dynamo, SGLang, and vLLM. Supported versions are NIXL 1.0.0+ and EFA installer 1.47.0+, available at no extra cost.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded availability of Amazon EC2 C8gn instances—powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors—to additional regions including Jakarta, Hyderabad, Tokyo, São Paulo, and Zurich. C8gn provides up to 30% better compute performance versus Graviton3-based C7gn instances, and uses 6th-generation Nitro Cards to deliver up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth. Instance sizes scale to 48xlarge with up to 384 GiB of memory, up to 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and EFA support on larger SKUs to improve cluster latency and throughput for network‑intensive and CPU‑bound inference workloads.

🧠 Amazon has launched EC2 High Memory U7i-6TB instances in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia). The u7i-6tb.112xlarge offers 6TiB of DDR5 memory and 448 vCPUs, with up to 100 Gbps for Amazon EBS and network, plus ENA Express for accelerated networking. These instances are powered by custom fourth‑generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). They are designed for mission‑critical in‑memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are available in the AWS London Region. These sixth-generation, network-optimized instances use 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the AWS Nitro System to deliver up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth—about 2x that of comparable fifth-generation instances. They support up to 128 vCPUs, 512 GiB of memory, up to 100 Gbps of EBS bandwidth and up to 400K IOPS, and M6idn offers up to 7.6 TB of low-latency instance storage. Sizes include metal and 32xlarge (which also support EFA); purchase options include Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8a instances available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) up to 4.5 GHz, C8a delivers up to 30% higher performance, up to 19% better price-performance, and 33% more memory bandwidth versus C7a. Offered in 12 sizes including two bare-metal options and built on the AWS Nitro System, these instances target latency-sensitive, compute-intensive workloads and are available via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🔒 AWS announced completion of its second GDV community audit, conducted with 36 German insurers representing over 63% of the market by premiums. The pooled audit evaluated AWS controls against the BSI C5 framework and covered services including Amazon EC2 and the Europe (Frankfurt) Region (eu-central-1). Remote fieldwork used videoconferencing, a secure audit portal, SME sessions, and evidence inspection; results are available to participating members and their regulators to support compliance and cloud adoption.

⚡ Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors with up to 4.5 GHz boost. These instances deliver up to 30% higher performance, up to 19% better price-performance, and 45% more memory bandwidth versus R7a, with up to 60% faster GroovyJVM performance. Built on the AWS Nitro System, R8a is SAP-certified, offered in 12 sizes including two bare-metal options, and is suited to memory-intensive, latency-sensitive workloads.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched EC2 M8azn instances in the US East (Ohio) Region. These general-purpose, high-frequency instances use fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors and deliver up to 5 GHz maximum CPU frequency. AWS reports up to 2× compute versus M5zn and up to 24% improvement over M8a, along with up to 4.3× memory bandwidth, a 10× larger L3 cache, and increased networking and EBS throughput. Available in nine sizes (2–96 vCPUs) including two bare-metal variants, they target latency-sensitive, compute-intensive workloads such as high-frequency trading, real-time analytics, HPC, gaming, and simulation.

⚡ Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and AWS GovCloud (US‑West), featuring 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) processors with up to 4.5 GHz. Compared with Hpc7a, Hpc8a delivers up to 40% higher compute performance, up to 25% better price performance, and up to 42% higher memory bandwidth. Built on sixth‑generation AWS Nitro Cards, these instances are optimized for tightly coupled, latency‑sensitive HPC workloads such as CFD, weather forecasting, FEA, and multiphysics simulations.

⚡ Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) and Europe (London). Powered by AWS-exclusive custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, they deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x the memory bandwidth versus previous Intel-based instances. AWS reports up to 20% higher general compute performance versus M7i, with specific workload gains—up to 30% for PostgreSQL, 60% for NGINX web applications, and 40% for deep learning recommendation models. M8i-flex targets common general-purpose sizes while M8i offers larger and SAP-certified configurations including a new 96xlarge.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8id instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors are now available in the Europe (Spain) region. They provide up to 384 vCPUs, 768 GiB of memory and 22.8 TB of NVMe SSD storage, offering up to 43% higher compute performance and 3.3× greater memory bandwidth versus prior C6id instances. C8id also delivers up to 46% better I/O performance for database workloads and up to 30% faster query results for I/O-intensive analytics, and supports Instance Bandwidth Configuration to flexibly allocate 25% between network and EBS bandwidth. These instances are suited for compute- and I/O-intensive workloads and are available via Savings Plans, On‑Demand, and Spot purchases.

🚀 AWS has expanded availability of Amazon EC2 C8gd and M8gd instances, adding C8gd in South America (São Paulo) and M8gd in Europe (Ireland). Powered by AWS Graviton4, these instances deliver up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based variants and offer up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe SSD block storage. They provide up to 50 Gbps network and 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth, come in 12 sizes, and include EFA support on the largest sizes. Customers can also adjust network and EBS bandwidth by 25% using EC2 instance bandwidth weighting to better optimize workload throughput.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 R7gd instances available in the South America (São Paulo) Region, offering up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe SSD block storage. R7gd instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors, paired with DDR5 memory and built on the AWS Nitro System, targeting memory‑intensive workloads such as open‑source databases, in‑memory caches, and real‑time analytics. They provide high‑speed, low‑latency ephemeral storage ideal for scratch space, temporary files, and caching.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has introduced High Memory U7i EC2 instances in new regions, offering a u7i-8tb.112xlarge (8TiB) in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and a u7i-12tb.224xlarge (12TiB) in Europe (Spain). Powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids) and DDR5 memory, the instances provide 448 and 896 vCPUs respectively, plus up to 100 Gbps for EBS and network and ENA Express. They target mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle and SQL Server.

🚀 Amazon has launched EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances in Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, they deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, and up to 20% higher performance than C7i models. C8i-flex addresses common compute workloads (large–16xlarge), while C8i targets memory-intensive needs with 13 sizes including bare metal and a new 96xlarge.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon Web Services has made EC2 G7e instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Europe (Spain). These instances deliver up to 2.3x inference performance versus G6e and support up to eight GPUs (96 GB each), 192 vCPUs, and 1,600 Gbps of networking for demanding LLM, multimodal, and spatial computing workloads. G7e also supports NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P and GPUDirect RDMA with EFA for accelerated multi-GPU and multi-node performance and can be purchased as On-Demand, Spot, or via Savings Plans. Provisioning is available through the AWS Management Console, CLI, and SDKs.

🚀Amazon EC2 R8g instances are now available in AWS Middle East (UAE), AWS Mexico (Central), and AWS Europe (Zurich). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, these R8g instances deliver up to 30% better performance compared to Graviton3-based R7g instances and are optimized for memory‑intensive workloads like databases, in‑memory caches, and real‑time analytics. R8g offers 12 sizes (including two bare metal options), scales up to 48xlarge and 1.5 TB of memory, and provides enhanced networking (up to 50 Gbps) and up to 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth. AWS also recommends migration support via the Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor to help move workloads to Graviton4.