All news with #aws ec2 tag

🔔 Starting today, Amazon EC2 X8i instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS and are SAP-certified, offering up to 43% higher performance, 1.5x more memory capacity (up to 6TB) and 3.3x more memory bandwidth versus X2i instances. X8i targets memory-intensive workloads like SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics and EDA, with 14 sizes and two bare metal options.

🚀 Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i‑flex instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US‑East). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors unique to AWS, they deliver up to 15% better price‑performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel‑based instances, and up to 20% better performance than M7i generations. M8i‑flex targets common general‑purpose sizes while M8i supports larger and SAP‑certified workloads including new 96xlarge and bare‑metal options.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i‑flex instances are available in AWS GovCloud (US‑East), powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors unique to AWS. These instances deliver up to 15% better price‑performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel‑based generations, plus up to 20% higher performance than R7i instances. R8i‑flex provides memory‑optimized Flex sizes from large to 16xlarge for common memory‑heavy workloads, while R8i offers 13 sizes including bare metal and a new 96xlarge for very large or CPU‑intensive applications.

🟦 Amazon EC2 C7i-flex, M7i-flex, and M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. These custom AWS-only processors deliver up to 15% better performance versus comparable x86 Intel processors used by other clouds. C7i-flex and M7i-flex provide up to 19% improved price-performance for common general-purpose workloads, while M7i offers up to 15% price-performance gains and larger sizes including bare metal with Intel accelerators.

🔒 Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports mounting Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes to containers in AWS GovCloud Regions. This lets you deploy storage- and data-intensive workloads such as ETL, media transcoding, and ML inference using serverless containers. With EBS task attachment ECS can provision, manage, format or use snapshots automatically. Support is available for EC2, Fargate, and Managed Instances launch types.

🚀 AWS announces general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye, bringing compute, storage, networking, and select services closer to end users. The Local Zone supports Amazon EC2 (C7i, M7i, R7i), Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access, Amazon EBS (local snapshots and gp3/gp2/io1/sc1/st1), Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, VPC, AWS Direct Connect, and Application Load Balancer. To enable, turn on the zone (eu-central-1-ist-1a) in the EC2 console or use the ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup API to reduce latency and meet data residency needs.

🔔 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of Amazon EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances, built on Apple M3 Ultra Mac Studio hardware. These instances, powered by the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 10 Gbps network and 8 Gbps EBS bandwidth and include a 28-core CPU, 60-core GPU, 32-core Neural Engine, and 256 GB of unified memory. Compared to M4 Max, they provide significant uplifts in CPU, GPU, memory, and Neural Engine capacity. Available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched EC2 High Memory U7i instances in the AWS Europe (Paris) region, adding u7i-12tb.224xlarge and u7in-16tb.224xlarge. These 7th-generation instances use custom 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors and provide 12 TiB or 16 TiB of DDR5 memory with 896 vCPUs. They offer up to 100 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth, ENA Express, and up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth on the 16 TiB variant, delivering up to 45% better price performance versus prior U-1 instances. Ideal for mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🖥️ Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in Europe (Ireland), powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors delivering up to 5 GHz single-thread performance. Built on sixth generation AWS Nitro Cards, these instances are optimized for EDA workloads and relational databases that need high CPU frequency and large memory. They provide a 32:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio, sizes from 2–96 vCPUs with up to 3,072 GiB memory and up to 8 TB local NVMe, and are offered via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🔎 Amazon GuardDuty provides specialized detections and runtime monitoring to identify and mitigate cryptocurrency mining in AWS. It analyzes VPC Flow Logs, DNS queries, CloudTrail events, and workload telemetry to surface findings such as CryptoCurrency:Runtime/BitcoinTool.B and Impact:Runtime/CryptoMinerExecuted. Enable GuardDuty across accounts and Regions and combine it with patching, least-privilege access, and preventive controls to reduce risk.

🚀 Amazon Web Services now offers Amazon EC2 G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany). These instances address graphics-intensive and machine learning workloads — including natural language processing, translation, video and image analysis, speech recognition, and personalization — with up to 8 L4 Tensor Core GPUs (24 GB each), third-generation AMD EPYC processors, up to 192 vCPUs, 100 Gbps networking, and 7.52 TB local NVMe SSD. G6 instances are available as On-Demand, Spot, and Savings Plans and can be launched via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDKs. They expand AWS's GPU capabilities for customers with sovereignty and compliance needs.

🖥️ Amazon has launched EC2 X8i instances in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai), powered by AWS-exclusive Intel Xeon 6 processors and certified for SAP. These memory-optimized instances deliver up to 1.5x more memory (up to 6 TB), 3.3x greater memory bandwidth, and up to 43% higher performance compared with prior X2i generations. Offered in 14 sizes from large to 96xlarge, including two bare-metal options, X8i targets SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics, and EDA, and is available via Savings Plans, On-Demand, or Spot.

🚀 Amazon EC2 G7e instances with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs are now available in the Europe (London) region. G7e delivers up to 2.3x inference performance over G6e and supports up to eight GPUs with 96 GB each, 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, 192 vCPUs, and up to 1600 Gbps networking. G7e includes NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P and GPUDirect RDMA with EFA for lower-latency multi-GPU and multi-node workloads, and is available as On‑Demand, Spot, and via Savings Plans.

🚀 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.