All news with #aws ec2 tag

🔔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.

⚡ 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.