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Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

Amazon EC2 introduces P6-B300 instances in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region, offering high-performance GPU resources ideal for training and deploying large AI models

Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. These instances feature 8xNVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with 2.1 TB of high-bandwidth GPU memory, 6.4 Tbps EFA networking, 300 Gbps dedicated ENA throughput, and 4 TB of system memory. Compared to P6-B200 instances, P6-B300 offers twice the networking bandwidth, 1.5 times the GPU memory size, and 1.5 times the GPU TFLOPS (at FP4, without sparsity), making them well-suited for training and deploying large trillion-parameter foundation models and large language models. P6-B300 instances are available in p6-b300.48xlarge size in US West (Oregon), AWS GovCloud (US-East), US East (N. Virginia), and Asia Pacific (Seoul) Regions.

Why it matters

This update impacts users who require high-performance GPU resources for training and deploying AI models

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