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Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region

Amazon EC2 introduces P6-B200 instances accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East), offering up to 2x performance over P5en instances for AI training and inference.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P6-B200 instances accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. These instances deliver up to 2x performance compared to P5en instances for AI training and inference. P6-B200 instances feature 8 Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and a 60% increase in GPU memory bandwidth over P5en, 5th Generation Intel Xeon processors (Emerald Rapids), and up to 3.2 terabits per second of Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFAv4) networking. Powered by the AWS Nitro System, P6-B200 instances enable reliable and secure scaling of AI workloads within Amazon EC2 UltraClusters to tens of thousands of GPUs. P6-B200 instances are available in p6-b200.48xlarge size in the following AWS Regions: US West (Oregon), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. To learn more about P6-B200 instances, visit Amazon EC2 P6 instances.

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