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🚀 AWS has announced general availability of the new Amazon EC2 C8gb instances, EBS-optimized and powered by AWS Graviton4 processors. These sizes deliver up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3 and offer up to 150 Gbps of EBS bandwidth and up to 200 Gbps networking. Available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon), metal sizes are limited to N. Virginia. They support EFA on larger sizes to improve cluster latency for tightly coupled workloads. Customers can use these instances to scale high-performance file systems and throughput-focused workloads while optimizing cost.

🚀 Amazon EC2 X8g instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and offering up to 60% better performance compared to Graviton2-based X2gd instances. X8g sizes provide up to 3 TiB memory and increased memory per vCPU, plus up to 50 Gbps networking and 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth. They target memory‑intensive workloads such as EDA, in‑memory and relational databases, real‑time analytics, and large containerized applications.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8gn instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, are now available in US East (Ohio) and Middle East (UAE). They deliver up to 30% better compute performance versus Graviton3-based C7gn instances, include 6th-generation Nitro Cards, and provide up to 600 Gbps of network bandwidth. C8gn supports sizes up to 48xlarge (up to 384 GiB memory), up to 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on select large sizes to improve cluster latency and throughput.

🚀 These instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, are now available in the Europe (Stockholm) region and provide up to 3 TiB of memory with increased memory per vCPU compared to prior Graviton4 instances. X8g targets memory-intensive workloads such as EDA, in-memory and relational databases, real-time analytics, and memory-heavy containerized applications. They offer larger sizes (up to 48xlarge), enhanced networking (up to 50 Gbps), EBS bandwidth up to 40 Gbps, and EFA/ENA Express support on larger sizes.

🚀 Amazon Web Services today previewed new Amazon EC2 M9g instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. AWS says M9g delivers up to 25% better compute performance and increased networking and EBS bandwidth versus Graviton4-based M8g, with up to 30–35% faster performance for databases, web applications, and machine learning. Built on the AWS Nitro System, M9g targets application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets, and is available in preview through a request process.

🚀 AWS has introduced Amazon EC2 X8aedz, a new memory-optimized instance family powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) that deliver up to 5 GHz maximum CPU frequency. X8aedz claims up to 2x higher compute performance and ~31% improved price-performance versus the prior X2iezn generation, combining high single-thread speed with a 32:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio and local NVMe storage. Instances come in eight sizes (2–96 vCPUs, 64–3,072 GiB), include two bare-metal variants, and offer up to 8 TB of local NVMe SSD. They are available now in US West (Oregon) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and can be purchased via On-Demand, Spot, or Savings Plans.

🚀 Amazon Web Services today announced a preview of Amazon EC2 X8i, a next-generation memory-optimized instance family built on custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. X8i offers up to 6 TB of memory—1.5× the capacity of X2i—and up to 3.4× the memory bandwidth of the previous generation. AWS reports 35% higher overall performance compared with X2i, and X8i is SAP-certified with a 46% SAPS increase for mission-critical SAP deployments. The instances target in-memory databases, large-scale databases, analytics, and EDA workloads; customers can request preview access to evaluate performance and fit.

🚀 Amazon Web Services previewed EC2 C8ine instances built on custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Granite Rapids) and the new Nitro v6 card. These instances are optimized for dataplane packet-processing workloads and can deliver up to 2.5× higher packet performance per vCPU versus prior C6in instances, with up to 2× higher internet-gateway bandwidth and up to 3× more ENIs. Targeted use cases include security virtual appliances, firewalls, load balancers, DDoS protection systems, and Telco 5G UPF. Preview access is available upon request through your AWS account team.

🚀 Amazon Web Services is previewing Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances, powered by the latest Mac Studio hardware to accelerate demanding Apple build and test workflows. These next-generation Mac instances target developers building for iOS, macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and Safari. M4 Max offers a 16-core CPU, 40-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine, and 128 GB unified memory, plus Nitro-based networking and EBS bandwidth to support large-scale CI/CD and testing.

🚀 AWS announced general availability of Amazon EC2 Trn3 UltraServers, powered by the new 3nm Trainium3 AI chip designed to deliver improved token economics for agentic, reasoning, and video-generation workloads. Each Trainium3 chip provides 2.52 PFLOPs (FP8), 144 GB of HBM3e, and 4.9 TB/s memory bandwidth, and servers can scale to 144 chips or to hundreds of thousands via EC2 UltraClusters. The platform includes the AWS Neuron SDK with native PyTorch integration so developers can train and deploy without changing model code, while performance engineers gain deeper access to tune kernels and optimize at scale.

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 C8a instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) processors with up to 4.5 GHz frequency. AWS says C8a delivers up to 30% higher performance, up to 19% better price-performance versus C7a, 33% more memory bandwidth, and up to 57% faster GroovyJVM performance for Java workloads. The family includes 12 sizes, two bare-metal options, and is built on the AWS Nitro System for high-performance compute use cases such as HPC, batch processing, ad serving, multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. C8a instances are initially available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) and can be purchased via Savings Plans, On-Demand, or Spot.

🔍 AWS announced an update to GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection that adds multistage attack detection for Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon ECS clusters running on Fargate or EC2. The release introduces two critical findings — AttackSequence:EC2/CompromisedInstanceGroup and AttackSequence:ECS/CompromisedCluster — that group related events into a single, high-priority alert. Findings include a summary, event timeline, MITRE ATT&CK mappings, and remediation guidance to speed response. Runtime Monitoring must be enabled for full coverage, and customers can try the feature free for 30 days.

🚀 AWS announced the new Amazon EC2 X8aedz memory-optimized instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin), offering up to 5 GHz peak CPU frequency and up to 2× compute performance versus X2iezn. Targeted at electronic design automation (EDA) workloads and relational databases that benefit from high single-thread performance and large memory footprints, X8aedz provides a 32:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio, local NVMe storage up to 8 TB, and sizes from 2 to 96 vCPUs including two bare-metal options. Instances are available in US West (Oregon) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and can be purchased via On‑Demand, Spot, or Savings Plans.

🔁 Amazon EC2 now offers interruptible On‑Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs), allowing reservation owners to temporarily make unused reserved capacity available to other internal workloads while retaining the ability to reclaim it. Consumers using interruptible ODCRs receive an interruption notice to allow graceful shutdown or checkpointing. The capability targets flexible, fault‑tolerant tasks such as batch processing, data analysis, and machine learning training, is available at no additional cost, and CloudFormation support is coming soon.

🔐 Amazon EC2 Fleet now supports an encryption attribute for Attribute-Based Instance Type Selection (ABIS). You can set RequireEncryptionInTransit in InstanceRequirements to limit launches to instance types that support encryption-in-transit, addressing compliance with VPC Encryption Controls in enforced mode. The GetInstanceTypesFromInstanceRequirements (GITFIR) API previews eligible instance types. The feature is available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions. To start, set RequireEncryptionInTransit=true when calling CreateFleet or GITFIR.

🚀 Amazon ECS Managed Instances is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and GovCloud (US-West) Regions, bringing a fully managed EC2 compute option to government-focused accounts. Managed Instances dynamically scales and optimizes EC2 capacity, supports task-level requirements (vCPU, memory, CPU architecture), and lets you select instance families including GPU, network-optimized, and burstable types. AWS initiates security patching every 14 days; management fees apply in addition to EC2 costs.

🚀 Amazon has expanded EC2 Image Builder with flexible AMI distribution features that let you distribute existing AMIs, retry failed distributions, and create custom distribution workflows. Distribution workflows introduce sequential steps—such as AMI copies, wait-for-action checkpoints, and attribute modifications—to support staged rollouts and approval gates with the same step-level visibility as build and test workflows. These capabilities work across regions and accounts and are available at no extra cost.

🚀 Amazon EC2 now provides License-Included (LI) AMIs for Microsoft SQL Server 2025, enabling fast deployment of the latest SQL Server release on Windows EC2 instances. These managed images are created and maintained by AWS and default to TLS 1.3 for improved security and performance. AMIs include preinstalled management tools such as AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, AWS Systems Manager, and AWS CloudFormation, plus network and storage drivers. The images are available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US), simplifying provisioning and lifecycle management for enterprise workloads.

🖥️ Amazon Web Services now publishes Apple macOS Tahoe (v26) as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for EC2 Mac instances, enabling developers to build and test with Xcode 26 and the latest Apple platform SDKs. These AMIs run on Apple silicon EC2 Mac instances and are backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) for stable, high-performance storage. Images include the AWS CLI, Command Line Tools for Xcode, Amazon SSM Agent, and Homebrew with the AWS Homebrew Tap. macOS Tahoe AMIs are available in all AWS regions that offer Apple silicon Mac instances and can be launched via the Console, CLI, or API.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C7i instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region, powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) exclusive to AWS. They deliver up to 15% better performance over comparable Intel-based offerings and up to 15% better price-performance versus C6i. C7i offers larger sizes up to 48xlarge, two bare-metal sizes (metal-24xl, metal-48xl) with built-in Intel accelerators and supports AMX and up to 128 EBS volumes to scale data-intensive workloads.