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Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region

Amazon EC2 now offers P6-B200 instances accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, delivering up to 2x performance over P5en instances for AI training and inference.

Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region, delivering up to 2x performance over P5en instances for AI training and inference. They feature eight Blackwell GPUs, 1440 GB high-bandwidth GPU memory, 60% higher GPU memory bandwidth than P5en, 5th-gen Intel Xeon processors (Emerald Rapids), and up to 3.2 Terabits per second Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFAv4) networking. Powered by the AWS Nitro system, they scale AI workloads reliably and securely to tens of thousands of GPUs within Amazon EC2 UltraClusters. The P6-B200 instances are available as p6-b200.48xlarge in US West (Oregon), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), AWS GovCloud (US-West, US-East), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Mumbai) regions.

Why it matters

This update impacts users who require AI training and inference. A new instance type powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs is now available, offering improved performance.

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