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AWS EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances now generally available

🚀 Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances are now generally available, offering up to 20% (M4) and 15% (M4 Pro) improved application build performance versus the M2 families. Powered by the AWS Nitro System, they provide up to 10 Gbps network and 8 Gbps EBS bandwidth and include a 2 TB instance store per Dedicated Host. M4 models use Apple M4 Mac Mini hardware and support macOS Sequoia 15.6+. Available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).

Amazon SageMaker Adds EC2 P6-B200 Notebook Instances

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of EC2 P6-B200 instances for SageMaker notebooks. These instances include eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with 1,440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, offering up to 2x the training performance versus P5en. They enable interactive development and fine-tuning of large foundation models in JupyterLab and CodeEditor, and are available in US East (Ohio) and US West (Oregon).

Amazon EC2 I8g Storage-Optimized Instances in Ohio

🚀 Amazon Web Services has announced general availability of Amazon EC2 I8g storage-optimized instances in the US East (Ohio) region. Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and third-generation Nitro SSDs, I8g delivers up to 60% better compute and up to 65% improved real-time storage performance per TB, with lower I/O latency and variability. Built on the AWS Nitro System, these instances target I/O-intensive, low-latency workloads such as transactional databases, real-time analytics and AI pre-processing. Ten sizes, including a metal option, provide up to 45 TB local NVMe storage and high network and EBS bandwidth.

CloudWatch Flow Monitors Extend Cross-Region Visibility

🔍 With this update, Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitoring flow monitors can observe traffic between AWS Regions over the AWS global network. Flow monitors deliver near real-time metrics for compute instances such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon EKS, and for services like Amazon S3 and Amazon DynamoDB, to help detect and attribute network-driven impairments. The network health indicator now captures cross-Region path health including visibility into remote public IPs and private traffic over VPC and Transit Gateway peering.

Amazon EC2 C6in Instances Now in Asia Pacific (Thailand)

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6in instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Thailand). These sixth-generation, network-optimized instances use 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the AWS Nitro System to deliver up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth—about 2x the bandwidth of comparable fifth-generation instances. C6in offers up to 128 vCPUs across 10 sizes (including a bare metal option), up to 100 Gbps of EBS bandwidth, and up to 400K IOPS, with Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) supported on 32xlarge and metal sizes.

Amazon EC2 R8g Instances Expand to Osaka and Canada

🚀 Amazon EC2 R8g instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) and AWS Canada (Central). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and the AWS Nitro System, R8g delivers up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based instances for memory‑intensive workloads. The family includes 12 sizes (two bare‑metal options), scales up to 48xlarge with 1.5 TB RAM, and offers up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking and 40 Gbps to Amazon EBS. AWS recommends the Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor to help migrate workloads.

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Adds Custom Blueprints

🔧 AWS announced general availability of Custom Blueprints in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, enabling customers to supply their own managed IAM policies when creating project roles. Teams can replace or augment the default service-managed policies and use custom AWS CloudFormation templates to define infrastructure and parameters for resources such as Amazon EMR on EC2, AWS Glue Data Catalog, and Amazon Redshift. Sample templates are available in the SageMaker documentation, and the capability is offered in all AWS Commercial Regions where the next-generation SageMaker is available.

Amazon EC2 AMI Usage: Track and Manage AMI Consumption

🔍 Amazon EC2 today announced AMI Usage, a new capability to track AMI consumption across AWS accounts and resources. It generates reports listing accounts that use your AMIs in EC2 instances and launch templates and shows utilization across instances, launch templates, Image Builder recipes, and SSM parameters. This reduces the need for custom scripts, helps safely manage AMI deregistrations, and supports cost optimization. AMI Usage is available at no additional cost in all AWS regions, including China and GovCloud.

Manage Access to AWS Regions and Local Zones from Console

🔒 Today, AWS announced the ability to manage access to AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones from a single location in the AWS Management Console. The new AWS Global View Regions and Zones page lets customers view infrastructure location details, opt-in status, and parent Region relationships across multiple Regions. This centralizes monitoring and access control and is available in all AWS commercial Regions.

AWS Split Cost Allocation Adds GPU and Accelerator Cost Tracking

🔍 Split Cost Allocation Data now supports accelerator-based workloads running in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), allowing customers to track costs for Trainium, Inferentia, NVIDIA and AMD GPUs alongside CPU and memory. Cost details are included in the AWS Cost and Usage Report (including CUR 2.0) and can be visualized using the Containers Cost Allocation dashboard in Amazon QuickSight or queried with Amazon Athena. New customers can enable the feature in the Billing and Cost Management console; it is automatically enabled for existing Split Cost Allocation Data customers.

Amazon EC2 I8ge Instances: Graviton4 Storage Optimized

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of Amazon EC2 I8ge instances, storage-optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors. They deliver up to 60% better compute and up to 55% better real-time storage performance per TB compared with previous Graviton2/Im4gn generations. I8ge offers up to 120 TB local NVMe instance storage, 1,536 GiB memory, sizes up to 48xlarge plus two metal options, and up to 300 Gbps networking, making them suitable for real-time databases, analytics, search, and streaming workloads. Instances are available in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon).

Amazon EC2 U7i-12TB High Memory Instances in Seoul

🚀 Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances (u7i-12tb.224xlarge) with 12TiB of DDR5 memory are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. Powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors, the U7i-12tb offers 896 vCPUs, ENA Express support, and up to 100 Gbps for both EBS and network throughput. These instances are designed for mission-critical in-memory databases and large transactional workloads such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server, enabling faster data loading, backups, and higher transaction processing throughput.

AWS launches M8i and M8i-flex EC2 instances, Xeon 6

🚀 AWS has made the new M8i and M8i-flex EC2 instances generally available, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS. The instances offer up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x the memory bandwidth versus previous Intel-based generations, and AWS reports up to 20% higher performance compared with M7i and M7i-flex with larger gains for specific workloads. Initial availability includes US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Spain).

AWS Extends VPC Traffic Mirroring to Nitro v4 Instances

🛡️ Amazon Web Services announced expanded support for VPC Traffic Mirroring, enabling the feature on a broader set of EC2 instance types. With this update, Traffic Mirroring can now be enabled on all Nitro v4 instances and is available across all regions. The capability replicates instance network traffic to security and monitoring appliances for use cases such as content inspection, threat monitoring, and troubleshooting; consult the AWS documentation for the complete supported instance lists and Nitro system mappings.

Amazon OpenSearch Service Adds i8g Storage Instances

🚀 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports i8g instances, the latest generation of storage-optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors. i8g delivers up to 60% better compute and uses third-generation Nitro NVMe SSDs for up to 65% better storage performance per TB, lower latency, and reduced latency variability. Supported for OpenSearch and Elasticsearch 7.9/7.10 across multiple regions.

EC2 Mac Dedicated Hosts: Host Recovery & Maintenance

🔧 AWS now offers two new capabilities for EC2 Mac Dedicated Hosts: Host Recovery and Reboot-based Host Maintenance. Host Recovery detects potential hardware issues and transparently migrates Mac instances to replacement hosts to minimize disruption. Reboot-based Host Maintenance automates instance stop and restart on replacement hosts during scheduled maintenance, eliminating manual intervention. These features support all EC2 Mac instance families on both Intel and Apple silicon and are available in regions that support EC2 Mac instances.

Amazon EC2 C8gn Instances Now in US West (N. California)

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8gn instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, are now available in US West (N. California). These instances deliver up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based C7gn, include 6th-generation AWS Nitro Cards, and offer up to 600 Gbps of network bandwidth. C8gn scales to 48xlarge (up to 384 GiB memory) with up to 60 Gbps to EBS, and selected large/metal sizes support EFA for lower-latency clusters. They are optimized for network-intensive workloads, high-throughput analytics, network virtual appliances, and CPU-based AI/ML inference.

Amazon EC2 C7i Instances Now Available in Osaka Region

🚀 Amazon EC2 C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors are now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. C7i delivers up to 15% better performance versus comparable x86-based Intel processors and up to 15% improved price-performance over C6i. Instances scale to 48xlarge and provide two bare-metal sizes with Intel accelerators, support Intel AMX, and allow up to 128 EBS volumes to better handle compute-intensive workloads.

AWS SageMaker Adds P5.4xlarge with NVIDIA H100 GPU

🚀 Amazon SageMaker Training and Processing Jobs now supports the new EC2 P5 instance size with a single NVIDIA H100 GPU, offering the P5.4xlarge configuration for cost‑effective ML and HPC workloads. The instance enables fine-grained scaling so customers can begin with smaller configurations and expand incrementally, improving cost management and infrastructure flexibility. P5.4xlarge is available via SageMaker Flexible Training Plans and in select regions through On‑Demand and Spot.

Amazon EC2 G6 Instances with NVIDIA L4 Now in UAE Region

🚀 Amazon has launched EC2 G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs in the Middle East (UAE) Region, expanding cloud GPU capacity for graphics and ML workloads. G6 instances offer up to 8 L4 GPUs with 24 GB per GPU, third-generation AMD EPYC processors, up to 192 vCPUs, 100 Gbps networking, and up to 7.52 TB local NVMe storage. They are available via On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, and Savings Plans and can be managed through the AWS Console, CLI, and SDKs.