All news with #aws ec2 tag

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon EC2 I7ie instances in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) region. Designed for high-density, storage-optimized workloads, these instances use 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and provide up to 120 TB of local NVMe storage, up to twice the vCPUs and memory versus prior generations, and up to 100 Gbps networking. With 3rd-generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7ie delivers notably improved storage performance and lower, more consistent latency compared with I3en.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded availability of M8i-flex instances to Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt) and Canada (Central). These instances use AWS-exclusive custom Intel Xeon 6 processors and deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x the memory bandwidth versus previous Intel-based generations. AWS reports up to 20% higher overall performance compared with M7i-flex, with workload-specific gains—up to 60% for NGINX, 30% for PostgreSQL, and up to 40% for AI recommendation models. To launch instances, sign in to the AWS Management Console.

🚀Amazon Web Services has launched the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8a instances in the Europe (Frankfurt) and Europe (Ireland) regions. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors at up to 4.5 GHz, C8a delivers up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance versus C7a. The family offers 33% more memory bandwidth, up to 57% faster GroovyJVM performance, and 12 sizes including two bare-metal options, making it well suited for latency-sensitive and compute-intensive workloads.

🚀 Amazon EC2 M7i instances powered by AWS-custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon (Sapphire Rapids) are now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. These AWS‑exclusive processors deliver up to 15% better performance versus comparable x86 Intel processors and up to 15% improved price-performance compared to M6i. M7i offers sizes up to 48xlarge plus bare-metal options (metal-24xl, metal-48xl) with built-in Intel accelerators — suitable for gaming servers, CPU-based ML, and high-throughput video streaming.

🖥️ Amazon Web Services now allows customers to run nested virtual machines inside virtual Amazon EC2 instances, enabling KVM and Hyper‑V stacks on non‑bare‑metal hosts. This expands prior capability that was limited to bare metal instances and supports use cases such as mobile emulators, in‑vehicle hardware simulation, and Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows workstations. The feature is available on C8i, M8i, and R8i in all commercial regions; see the EC2 nested virtualization documentation for enabling hardware virtualization extensions.

🔔 Amazon Web Services expanded availability of its EC2 High Memory U7i instances to additional regions, adding U7i-6tb.112xlarge in South America (São Paulo) and Europe (Milan), U7i-12tb.224xlarge in AWS GovCloud (US‑East), and U7in-16tb.224xlarge in Europe (London). These 7th-generation instances are powered by custom 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) and offer DDR5 memory up to 16 TiB with ENA Express support. Network and EBS performance scales to support up to 100 Gbps for most sizes and up to 200 Gbps on the 16 TiB variant, targeting mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

⚙️ AWS now supports the latest x86 Amazon EC2 instance families — C8i, M8i, and R8i — on second-generation AWS Outposts racks. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS and offer about 20% better performance, 2.5× more memory bandwidth, and 20% more compute capacity versus the prior C7i, M7i, and R7i models within the same rack footprint. They are aimed at on-premises workloads such as larger databases, memory-intensive applications, real-time analytics, high-performance video encoding, and CPU-based edge ML inference.

🚀Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 X8i instances, next-generation memory-optimized VMs powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS. X8i delivers up to 43% higher performance, up to 1.5x more memory capacity (to 6 TB) and 3.3x greater memory bandwidth versus the prior X2i generation, targeting SAP HANA, large databases, analytics and EDA. The family includes 14 sizes, two bare-metal options, and is available in select US and EU regions; purchase options include On-Demand, Savings Plans and Spot.

⚡AWS announced general availability of new Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, powered by fifth-generation AMD EPYC (Turin) processors delivering up to 5 GHz maximum CPU frequency. M8azn offers up to 2x compute versus M5zn and up to 24% higher performance than M8a, with increased memory bandwidth, a larger L3 cache, and higher networking and EBS throughput. Available in nine sizes (2–96 vCPU) including two bare-metal options, these Nitro-based instances target latency-sensitive workloads such as HFT, real-time analytics, HPC, gaming, and simulation. Regions at launch include N. Virginia, Oregon, Tokyo, and Frankfurt, and they are available via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are now available in Europe (Paris), Canada (Central), and US West (N. California). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, these instances deliver improved price-performance (up to 15%), and up to 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus previous Intel-based generations. Compared to C7i families, AWS reports up to 20% higher performance and larger gains for select workloads such as NGINX, AI recommendation models, and Memcached. C8i-flex targets common right-sized workloads from large to 16xlarge, while C8i targets memory-intensive and very large instance needs including a new 96xlarge and bare metal sizes. Purchase options include Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot pricing via the AWS Management Console.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Middle East (UAE) regions. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS and deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x the memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances. R8i provides large sizes including a new 96xlarge and SAP certification, while R8i-flex offers common memory-optimized Flex sizes from large to 16xlarge for workloads that don’t fully use compute. To begin, sign in to the AWS Management Console or review the AWS News blog for details.

🚀 Amazon Web Services expanded availability of EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, offering up to 384 vCPUs, 3 TiB of memory, and 22.8 TB of NVMe SSD storage. These instances deliver up to 43% higher compute performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth versus the sixth-generation C6id, M6id, and R6id, and provide up to 46% better I/O performance for database workloads. An Instance Bandwidth Configuration lets customers flexibly allocate 25% between network and EBS; C8id and M8id are now in Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo), with M8id and R8id additionally in Europe (Spain), and the family is purchasable via On‑Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8gn instances powered by AWS Graviton4 are now available in additional regions including Asia Pacific (Seoul, Melbourne), Canada (Central), Europe (Spain), and AWS GovCloud. These instances offer up to 30% better compute versus Graviton3-based C7gn, use 6th-generation Nitro Cards, and deliver up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth. Sizes scale to 48xlarge with up to 384 GiB memory, up to 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and EFA support on larger sizes to enable lower-latency clusters.

🚀 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.