All news with #aws ec2 tag

🚀 Amazon has launched EC2 C8i-flex instances in Europe (Ireland, London) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, C8i-flex deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x the memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, and up to 20% higher throughput than C7i-flex. AWS reports workload-specific gains — up to 60% faster NGINX, 40% for deep learning recommendation models, and 35% for Memcached — and offers sizes from large to 16xlarge purchasable via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

⚡ Starting today, Amazon EC2 C8i instances are available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand). Powered by AWS-exclusive custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, C8i delivers up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x the memory bandwidth versus previous Intel-based instances, and up to 20% higher performance than C7i. AWS reports workload-specific gains — up to 60% faster for NGINX, 40% for deep learning recommendation models, and 35% for Memcached. The family includes 13 sizes (two bare metal and a new 96xlarge) and can be purchased via Savings Plans, On-Demand, or Spot.

🔒 Amazon EC2 now lets you control whether resources provisioned by managed instance offerings appear in console views and API list responses. New managed EC2 instances — provisioned by services such as Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, AWS Lambda, and Amazon WorkSpaces — are hidden by default to better align with the shared responsibility model. You can adjust visibility settings via the EC2 console or the AWS CLI, affecting views like the EC2 console and describe-instances API results.

🔔 Amazon announced that Amazon EC2 for SQL Server HA now emits health notifications when it cannot detect a valid SQL Server High Availability status. Customers who register EC2 SQL HA clusters via the AWS Console or CloudFormation can receive alerts through the AWS Health Dashboard, Amazon EventBridge, and email. These notifications help teams respond quickly and avoid unexpected license-included billing or charges. The feature is available in all Regions where EC2 SQL HA is supported, including AWS GovCloud (US).

🚀 AWS has made Amazon EC2 G7e instances generally available in the Los Angeles Local Zone (us-west-2-lax-1b), bringing high-performance GPU compute closer to end users. G7e instances combine NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs with 5th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids) processors to support creative workflows such as studio workstations, VFX editing, color correction, and enhanced real-time rendering. They are also targeted at AI workloads including LLM deployment, inference, and agentic AI at the edge; availability is via On Demand and Savings Plans and you can enable the Local Zone through AWS Global View or launch instances from the EC2 console, AWS CLI, and SDKs.

🚀 AWS has launched EC2 High Memory U7i instances — u7i-8tb.112xlarge and u7i-12tb.224xlarge — in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. These 7th-generation instances use custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors and provide 8TiB or 12TiB of DDR5 memory with 448 and 896 vCPUs respectively. They support up to 100 Gbps for Amazon EBS and network bandwidth and include ENA Express, targeting mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

📡 Amazon CloudWatch now lets customers audit and enable telemetry from AWS services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, and AWS CloudTrail across multiple Regions from a single region. Administrators can create organization-wide enablement rules scoped to specific regions or all supported regions, and rules targeting all regions automatically expand to include newly launched regions. The feature is available in all AWS commercial regions and standard CloudWatch ingestion pricing applies.

🔔Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in the Europe (Stockholm) region, offering up to 5 GHz CPU frequency on 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) processors. Built on sixth-generation AWS Nitro Cards, these instances target EDA workloads and relational databases that need high single-thread performance and large memory. They provide a 32:1 memory:vCPU ratio across eight sizes (2–96 vCPUs, 64–3,072 GiB), including two bare metal options and up to 8 TB of local NVMe storage. Purchase options include On-Demand, Spot, and Savings Plans.

🚀 AWS announced general availability of Amazon EC2 C8in and C8ib instances powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest AWS Nitro cards. These instances deliver up to 43% higher performance versus the prior C6in generation and scale up to 384 vCPUs. C8in provides up to 600 Gbps networking for network-intensive workloads, while C8ib offers up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth for high-performance databases and file systems. Both families are available in select regions and via On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot.

🚀 Amazon has added EC2 P6-B300 instances to the AWS GovCloud (US‑East) Region. The p6-b300.48xlarge configuration provides 8x NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with 2.1 TB of high-bandwidth GPU memory, 6.4 Tbps EFA networking, 300 Gbps ENA throughput, and 4 TB of system memory. P6-B300 delivers ~2x networking, 1.5x GPU memory and 1.5x FP4 TFLOPS vs P6-B200, targeting training and deployment of large trillion-parameter foundation models and LLMs.

🚀 AWS has increased Amazon EBS performance for EC2 C8gn, M8gn, and R8gn instances in 48xlarge and metal-48xl sizes. With enhancements to the AWS Nitro System, EBS bandwidth doubles from 60 Gbps to 120 Gbps and IOPS doubles from 240,000 to 480,000. New launches receive the upgrade at no extra cost; running instances can enable it by stopping and starting. The change is available in all regions where these instance types are generally available.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 M8i and M8i‑flex instances available in AWS GovCloud (US‑West). Powered by AWS‑exclusive Intel Xeon 6 processors, the instances deliver up to 15% better price‑performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel‑based generations, and up to 20% higher performance than M7i variants. AWS cites workload gains of up to 30% for PostgreSQL, 60% for NGINX web workloads, and 40% for deep learning recommendation models. M8i‑flex targets common sizes for cost‑efficient general purpose use, while M8i supports large, SAP‑certified and bare‑metal options including a new 96xlarge.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances available in the AWS GovCloud (US‑West) Region. Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, these instances deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared with prior Intel-based generations. R8i offers 13 sizes including two bare-metal options and a new 96xlarge for the largest workloads, while R8i-flex provides common memory-optimized sizes from large to 16xlarge for applications that don’t fully utilize vCPUs. Both families are SAP-certified and targeted at memory-intensive databases, web services, analytics, and recommendation models.

🚀 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced general availability of Amazon EC2 X8i instances, next‑generation memory‑optimized VMs powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i delivers up to 43% higher performance, up to 1.5× more memory (up to 6 TB) and 3.3× greater memory bandwidth versus X2i. Offered in 14 sizes, including two bare‑metal options, they target SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics and EDA and are available in select US and European regions.

✅AWS RTB Fabric now supports health checks for real-time bidding workloads running on EC2 Auto Scaling groups, providing continuous monitoring and automatic routing to healthy instances via configurable settings in RTB responder gateways. This reduces failed bidding transactions caused by bootstrapping, draining, or instance failures and helps AdTech operators improve uptime and lower error rates. The capability is generally available in multiple AWS Regions and integrates with a broad set of advertising partners.

🏷️ Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager now supports tag-based dimensions, enabling you to group and filter capacity metrics using tags from your EC2 resources. You can activate up to five custom tag keys — for example environment, team, or cost-center — alongside built-in dimensions such as Region, Instance Type, and Availability Zone. The launch also introduces a new built-in Account Name dimension and includes tag data as additional columns in newly created S3 exports. Activate keys in the Capacity Manager Settings (Manage tag keys) or via the AWS CLI.

🎮 Amazon GameLift Servers now supports Amazon EC2 5th through 8th generation instances, expanding options for game server hosting. The release lets developers choose General Purpose (M), Compute Optimized (C), and Memory Optimized (R) families across Intel, AMD, and AWS Graviton processors, with variants offering local storage and enhanced networking. This update improves price-performance, efficiency, and flexibility for scaling multiplayer game workloads globally.

🚀 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.