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🔔 Amazon EC2 R8g instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand, New Zealand), AWS Africa (Cape Town), AWS Europe (Milan), and AWS Canada West (Calgary). These instances use AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based instances, targeting memory-intensive workloads such as databases and real-time analytics. Built on the AWS Nitro System, R8g offers larger sizes, enhanced networking, and improved EBS bandwidth for demanding applications.

🚀Starting today, compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C7a instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC (Genoa) processors with up to 3.7 GHz, C7a delivers up to 50% higher performance than C6a and adds new capabilities like AVX-512, VNNI, and bfloat16. These instances use DDR5 memory for 2.25x more memory bandwidth, come in 12 sizes including bare-metal, and support up to 128 EBS attachments. C7a instances run on the AWS Nitro System and are available via On-Demand, Spot, and Savings Plans.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8a general-purpose instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs with up to 4.5 GHz, M8a offers up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance than M7a. Instances provide 45% more memory bandwidth, SAP certification, 12 sizes including 2 bare metal, and are suitable for high-throughput workloads.

⚙️ Amazon EC2 C8in instances are now available in the AWS US East (Ohio) and Europe (Ireland) regions. These instances use custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards, offering up to 43% higher performance over prior C6in instances. C8in supports up to 384 vCPUs and provides 600 Gbps network bandwidth, suited for network-intensive workloads. Availability spans multiple regions and purchasing models including Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🔒 Amazon EC2 now supports AMI watermarks that embed custom identifiers into private AMIs and persist through copies and derived AMIs. Watermarks include metadata such as AMI ID, owner ID, region, and timestamps to support provenance and tracking. You can apply watermarks via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, SDKs, or EC2 Image Builder. Watermarks integrate with Allowed AMIs and Declarative Policies to enforce AMI usage across organizations.

🚀 Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB instances (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. These 7th-generation U7i instances use custom Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs and provide 24 TiB of DDR5 memory, 896 vCPUs, up to 200 Gbps network, and 100 Gbps EBS bandwidth to accelerate in-memory workloads. U7i offers up to 45% better price performance over prior U-1 instances and is suited for mission-critical databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

📢 AWS today announced general availability of a new Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam, bringing infrastructure closer to end users. The Hanoi Local Zone supports Amazon EC2 with C7i, M7i, and R7i instances, Amazon S3 including One Zone-IA, and Amazon EBS with Local Snapshots and multiple volume types. Customers can enable the zone (ap-southeast-1-han-1a) via AWS Global View or the ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup API.

🚀 Today AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 G7 instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. G7 delivers up to 4.6x AI inference and 2.1x graphics performance versus G6 and supports AI inference, real-time cinematic graphics, game streaming, and large-scale data analytics. Instances offer up to 8 GPUs with 32 GB each, custom Intel Xeon 6 CPUs, and up to 700 Gbps EFA; available now in US East (Ohio) and US West (Oregon) as On-Demand, Savings Plans, or Spot.

🚀 AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 and P6e-GB300 UltraServer instances, enabling large-scale GPU workloads using the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture within Slurm-managed clusters. You can reserve UltraServers via EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML and associate them with a PCS compute node group using an EC2 launch template, while PCS configures Slurm topology automatically. P6e-GB200 offers up to 72 GPUs, 360 petaflops FP8 (no sparsity), and 13.4 TB HBM3e; P6e-GB300 delivers 1.5x GPU memory and FP4 compute versus the GB200. PCS remains a managed Slurm-based service that simplifies building elastic HPC environments with integrated compute, storage, networking, visualization, managed updates, and observability.

🖥️ Starting today, AWS has expanded nested virtualization support to additional Intel-based instance families and US GovCloud regions. The feature is now available on C7i, R7i, M7i and their "-id" and "-flex" variants, plus I7i, C8i-flex, R8i-flex, M8i-flex and X8i, complementing earlier C8i, M8i and R8i support. US GovCloud (US-East) and US GovCloud (US-West) now also support nested virtualization in addition to all commercial regions. Customers can run KVM or Hyper-V inside EC2 instances for emulation, simulation, or WSL workloads.

🛠️ Amazon RDS for SQL Server introduces memory-optimized X2m instances based on EC2 X2iedn. These instances deliver up to 64 vCPUs, 4 TB memory, 256K IOPS and a 32:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio while providing the Amazon RDS Optimize CPU feature to reduce SQL Server licensing by 50% or more for memory-intensive workloads. X2m instances are available via the RDS Console, AWS SDK, or CLI, support On-Demand pricing and qualify for the AWS Database Savings Plan; refer to Amazon RDS for SQL Server Pricing for specifics.

🚀Starting today, Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. These instances deliver up to 2x performance versus P5en for AI training and inference and include 8 Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory. They offer a 60% increase in GPU memory bandwidth, 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, and up to 3.2 Tbps of EFAv4 networking, powered by the AWS Nitro System.

🔔 AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) now supports tag propagation to automatically apply tags to managed resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EBS volumes, and ENIs. This enables consistent cost allocation, enforcement of service control policies, and compliance across resources provisioned by LMI. Configure the PropagateTags setting via CreateCapacityProvider or UpdateCapacityProvider in Explicit mode and provide key-value pairs; the feature is available in all commercial Regions where LMI is GA.

🚀 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.