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🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances are available in AWS Europe (Ireland). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and 6th-generation Nitro Cards, they deliver up to 30% better compute vs Graviton3. M8gn offers up to 600 Gbps networking for network‑intensive workloads, while M8gb provides up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth for storage‑heavy applications. Larger sizes up to 48xlarge and metal options are supported.

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of the new Amazon EC2 R8idn and R8idb instances, powered by custom sixth‑generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest sixth‑generation AWS Nitro cards. R8idn offers up to 600 Gbps networking and up to 22,800 GB of NVMe local storage; R8idb delivers up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth and up to 1,440K IOPS, representing up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU versus the prior R6in generation. Both families target memory‑intensive workloads and are available in select US and Europe regions via On‑Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot.

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of Amazon EC2 M8idn and M8idb instances powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest sixth-generation AWS Nitro cards. These instances deliver up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU versus M6idn, with M8idn offering up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth and M8idb up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth. They target network- and storage-intensive general-purpose workloads and are available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Spain) via On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot.

🚀 Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) region as of May 6, 2026. They offer up to 2x performance versus P5en for AI training and inference and include eight Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and a 60% increase in memory bandwidth. P6-B200 runs on 5th Generation Intel Xeon processors (Emerald Rapids), supports up to 3.2 terabits per second of EFAv4 networking, and is delivered in the p6-b200.48xlarge size.

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances are now available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. The p6-b300.48xlarge ships with 8x NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, 2.1 TB high-bandwidth GPU memory, 6.4 Tbps EFA networking, 300 Gbps ENA throughput and 4 TB system memory. Compared with P6-B200, P6-B300 delivers 2x networking bandwidth and 1.5x GPU memory and TFLOPS (FP4, without sparsity), making it suited for training and serving large trillion-parameter foundation models and LLMs with improved token throughput and faster distributed training.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded availability of I8ge Amazon EC2 instances to Europe (Paris) and multiple Asia Pacific regions including Thailand, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Tokyo. Powered by Graviton4 processors and third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs, these storage-optimized instances deliver notable compute and storage gains and provide up to 120 TB of local NVMe. Offered in eleven sizes (including two metal options), I8ge instances also support high network and EBS bandwidth for data-intensive workloads.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8gn instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, are now available in AWS Europe (Milan) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong). The C8gn family delivers up to 30% better compute performance versus Graviton3-based C7gn instances and uses 6th-generation AWS Nitro Cards to provide up to 600 Gbps of network bandwidth. C8gn scales to 48xlarge (up to 384 GiB memory), supports EFA on select large sizes, and offers up to 120 Gbps of EBS bandwidth—suited for network virtual appliances, data analytics, and CPU-based AI/ML inference.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports G7e and r5d.16xlarge instances to improve large-model development, training, and deployment at scale. G7e uses NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, offering up to 2.3x better inference performance than G6e and up to 768 GB GPU memory for larger LLMs, multimodal, and agentic AI workloads. The r5d.16xlarge provides 64 vCPUs, 512 GB RAM, and NVMe storage for distributed preprocessing, feature engineering, and memory-heavy orchestration; G7e is available in select US and Asia Pacific regions while r5d.16xlarge is available across all HyperPod regions.

⚡ AWS has made Amazon EC2 C8ine and M8ine instances generally available. Powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest sixth-generation AWS Nitro cards, these instance families deliver up to 43% higher compute performance and up to 2.5× higher packet performance per vCPU versus prior-generation network-optimized instances. They also offer up to 2× higher Internet-gateway throughput and are targeted at security and network virtual appliances such as virtual firewalls, load balancers, and Telco 5G UPF. C8ine and M8ine are available in select AWS regions via Savings Plans and On-Demand.

🚀 AWS announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 R8in network-optimized and R8ib EBS-optimized memory-optimized instances. Powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest sixth-generation AWS Nitro cards, the new instances deliver significantly higher throughput and efficiency versus prior generations. R8in offers up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth for real-time analytics and AI/ML caching, while R8ib provides up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth for storage-intensive databases. These instances are available in select US and Europe regions on Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of Amazon EC2 M8in network‑optimized and M8ib EBS‑optimized instances, powered by custom sixth‑generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest Nitro cards. They deliver up to 43% higher performance versus M6in/M6ib. M8in provides 600 Gbps network bandwidth for real‑time analytics, in‑memory caching, AI/ML cache fleets and 5G UPF; M8ib offers up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth for high‑performance file systems and NoSQL. Available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Spain) via On‑Demand, Spot and Savings Plans.

🚀 AWS has added High Memory U7i instances in new regions, bringing the u7i-8tb.112xlarge to Europe (Stockholm, Zurich), the u7in-16tb.224xlarge to US East (Ohio), and the u7in-24tb.224xlarge to Europe (Stockholm). These 7th-generation instances are powered by custom 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) and DDR5 memory, offering 8, 16, and 24 TiB options with 448 or 896 vCPUs. They deliver high EBS and network throughput (up to 100 Gbps EBS; up to 100–200 Gbps network) and include ENA Express, making them well suited for mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched EC2 X8g instances in the Europe (Ireland) region. Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, X8g delivers up to 60% better performance than Graviton2-based X2gd instances and supports up to 3 TiB of memory with an increased memory-per-vCPU ratio. These instances target memory-intensive workloads — including EDA, in-memory caches, relational databases, real-time analytics, and memory-heavy containerized applications — and provide enhanced networking, high EBS bandwidth, and EFA/ENA support on larger sizes.

🚀 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.