All news with #aws ec2 tag

🚀 Amazon Web Services now offers EC2 I7ie instances in AWS Canada (Central). These high-density, storage-optimized instances use 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs to deliver up to 40% better compute, up to 65% improved storage throughput, and significantly lower I/O latency versus I3en. I7ie provides up to 120 TB local NVMe, up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth, and nine instance sizes for large-scale, low-latency storage workloads.

🔁 AWS has made cross-account sharing generally available for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, enabling organizations to share reserved GPU capacity across AWS accounts via AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). Teams can purchase Capacity Blocks and provision them to multiple accounts at no extra cost, improving utilization and lowering costs. The feature is available in Regions where Capacity Blocks are offered, and administrators enable sharing by creating a RAM Resource Share and adding Capacity Block resources.

☁️ Amazon Web Services has made the EC2 High Memory U7i instance with 6TiB of DDR5 memory (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) available in AWS GovCloud (US-West). These 7th-generation instances are powered by custom 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors and deliver 448 vCPUs, up to 100Gbps for EBS and network, plus ENA Express. Designed for mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server, they enable higher transaction throughput and faster data loading and backups.

🚀 Amazon EC2 G7e instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, are now available in US West (Oregon). These instances deliver up to 2.3x inference performance compared to G6e and offer up to eight GPUs with 96 GB per GPU, 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, 192 vCPUs, and up to 1600 Gbps of networking. They target LLMs, agentic and multimodal generative AI, spatial computing, and workloads that require combined graphics and AI processing, while supporting GPUDirect P2P and RDMA in UltraClusters for low-latency multi-GPU scaling.

🚀 AWS announced general availability of new Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. These instances deliver up to 43% higher compute performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth versus the sixth-generation C6id, M6id, and R6id families, and scale to 384 vCPUs, 3 TiB RAM, and 22.8 TB NVMe SSD storage. They also introduce Instance Bandwidth Configuration for a 25% flexible allocation between network and EBS bandwidth to better match workload needs. Availability is currently in select US regions and Frankfurt for R8id; purchase options include On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot.

🚀 Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Europe (Spain) and Europe (Frankfurt), featuring 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors with up to a 4.5 GHz maximum frequency. These instances deliver up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance versus R7a, plus 45% more memory bandwidth and up to 60% faster GroovyJVM throughput for latency-sensitive workloads. Built on the AWS Nitro System with sixth-generation Nitro Cards, R8a offers 12 sizes including two bare-metal options and is SAP-certified, providing 38% more SAPS than R7a. To begin, sign in to the AWS Management Console and review the instance documentation for sizing and configuration guidance.

⚡ Amazon Web Services has made R7gd EC2 instances available in the Europe (Paris) Region, offering up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block storage. Powered by AWS Graviton3 processors with DDR5 memory and built on the AWS Nitro System, these instances target memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real-time analytics. They provide high-speed, low-latency local storage suitable for scratch space, temporary files, and caches, and can be launched via the AWS Management Console.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8i instances are now available in the Europe (London) region, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS. They deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus previous-generation Intel-based instances, and up to 20% higher performance compared with C7i. AWS cites workload-specific gains — up to 60% faster NGINX, 40% faster AI recommendation models, and 35% faster Memcached — and offers 13 sizes including two bare metal options and a new 96xlarge. Customers can purchase via Savings Plans, On-Demand, or Spot instances.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has added EC2 C8i and C8i‑flex instances to the Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. These instances are built on custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS and deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x greater memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based generations. AWS cites up to 20% higher overall performance versus C7i families and workload-specific gains—up to 60% for NGINX, 40% for deep-learning recommendation models, and 35% for Memcached. C8i‑flex targets common compute sizes (large to 16xlarge) while C8i targets memory-intensive use cases with 13 sizes including 96xlarge and bare-metal; customers can buy On-Demand, Spot, or via Savings Plans.

🚀 AWS has made EBS-optimized EC2 C8gb, M8gb, and R8gb instances in 48xlarge sizes generally available, with C8gb and R8gb also offered as metal-48xl. Powered by Graviton4, the new sizes deliver up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3 and offer up to 300 Gbps of EBS bandwidth and 1,440,000 IOPS. They support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and up to 400 Gbps networking to improve latency and cluster performance for tightly coupled and high-throughput workloads. New sizes are available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded availability of Amazon EC2 C8gn instances powered by AWS Graviton4 to additional regions including Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Ireland, London) and Canada West (Calgary). C8gn delivers up to 30% better compute performance versus C7gn and incorporates 6th-generation AWS Nitro Cards with up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth. Instances scale to 48xlarge with up to 384 GiB memory and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and selected large sizes support Elastic Fabric Adapter for lower latency. These instances are aimed at network-intensive workloads such as network virtual appliances, data analytics, and CPU-based AI/ML inference.

🔧Instance Scheduler on AWS now provides enhanced scheduling orchestration that tracks AWS tagging events, informational resource tags for self-service troubleshooting, an optional EC2 insufficient-capacity retry flow using alternate instance types, and automatic creation of a dedicated EventBridge EventBus. These changes re-architect orchestration and fan-out mechanisms to improve scaling performance and address cost-scaling concerns. The update reduces operational overhead and increases workload reliability by empowering distributed engineers to troubleshoot independently and by improving start success in capacity-constrained zones.

🚀 Amazon EC2 G7e instances are now generally available, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. G7e delivers up to 2.3x inference performance versus G6e and supports configurations with up to 8 GPUs (96 GB each), 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, 192 vCPUs, and up to 1600 Gbps of Elastic Fabric Adapter networking. Designed for LLMs, multimodal and spatial computing workloads, G7e includes NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P and RDMA support in EC2 UltraClusters and is available in US East (N. Virginia) and US East (Ohio) as On‑Demand, Spot, or via Savings Plans.

🚀 AWS has expanded availability of its EC2 High Memory U7i instances into additional regions. New placements include U7i-6tb.112xlarge in Asia Pacific (Thailand, Sydney, Singapore), Canada (Central) and AWS GovCloud (US‑East); U7i-8tb.112xlarge in South America (Sao Paulo); and U7in-16tb.224xlarge in AWS GovCloud (US‑East). These 7th‑generation instances use custom 4th‑gen Intel Xeon (Sapphire Rapids), provide 6–16 TiB of DDR5 memory, up to 896 vCPUs, 100–200Gbps networking, EBS throughput and ENA Express, and are targeted at mission‑critical in‑memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle and SQL Server.

🚀 AWS has announced general availability of Amazon EC2 X8i instances, a new family of memory-optimized instances built on custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS. X8i offers up to 43% higher overall performance, 1.5x more memory capacity (up to 6 TB) and 3.4x greater memory bandwidth compared to prior X2i instances. Designed for SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics and EDA, X8i is SAP-certified and available in 14 sizes including two bare-metal options. Instances are initially available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and Europe (Frankfurt) and can be purchased via Savings Plans, On-Demand or Spot.

🚀 Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Asia Pacific (Seoul). These instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code named Turin) and deliver the highest maximum CPU frequency in the cloud — 5 GHz. Built on sixth-generation AWS Nitro Cards, X8aedz targets EDA workloads and relational databases that need high single-thread performance and large memory capacity, pairing 5 GHz CPUs with local NVMe for faster memory-intensive processing.

🚀 AWS today announced that Amazon EC2 I7ie instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada West (Calgary), and Europe (Paris). Designed for large storage I/O–intensive workloads, these high-density, storage-optimized instances use 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and 3rd gen AWS Nitro SSDs to deliver higher compute performance, lower storage I/O latency, and increased local NVMe capacity up to 120TB. They come in nine sizes with up to 100 Gbps networking and significant EBS bandwidth, targeting low-latency, high-throughput applications.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i‑flex instances are available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Powered by AWS-exclusive custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, these instances deliver up to 15% better price‑performance and 2.5x higher memory bandwidth compared with prior Intel-based instances. AWS reports up to 20% higher general performance versus the C7i family, with workload-specific gains — up to 60% for NGINX, 40% for deep learning recommendation models, and 35% for Memcached. C8i‑flex targets common sizes (large to 16xlarge) for cost-efficient compute, while C8i offers 13 sizes including two bare-metal and a new 96xlarge for memory‑intensive or continuous high‑CPU workloads.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon EC2 G5 instances powered by NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region to support graphics-intensive and machine learning workloads. These instances scale to eight A10G GPUs with 2nd-generation AMD EPYC processors, up to 192 vCPUs, 100 Gbps networking and 7.6 TB of NVMe local storage across eight size options. Customers can tune performance with NVIDIA drivers for compute, gaming, or workstation workloads and purchase capacity as On-Demand or Reserved Instances to meet cost and operational needs.

📊 AWS has added Spot interruption metrics to EC2 Capacity Manager, giving cloud teams clearer visibility into Spot instance behavior across accounts, regions, and availability zones. The feature introduces three metrics—Spot Usage Total Count, Spot Total Interruptions, and Spot Interruption Rate—showing how many Spot instances or vCPUs ran, how many were interrupted, and the interruption percentage. This capability is enabled by default in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional cost.