Concise summaries of official AWS update announcements for Amazon EC2.
Information as of November 3, 2026.
AWS EC2 Auto Scaling now allows enabling Launch Before Terminate as the default replacement behavior across all Auto Scaling groups in an account, ensuring full application capacity and availability during instance replacement events.
AWS has launched the public beta of TorchNeuron, an open source native PyTorch backend for AWS Trainium. It allows AI scientists and researchers to build and experiment with models natively on Trainium using PyTorch.
EC2 Image Builder now allows using instances from an Auto Scaling Group for image builds, reducing build time by reusing running instances
Amazon Time Sync Service now supports microsecond-accurate time on 135 additional EC2 instance types, allowing customers to create a Precision Time Placement Group (PTPG) for enhanced timing precision
AWS announces Blockchain Snapshots, providing pre-synced blockchain data in Amazon S3 for Ethereum and Solana nodes, enabling faster node setup by using snapshots instead of peer-to-peer syncing.
Amazon EC2 G7 instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, are now available in two European regions, offering up to 4.6x AI inference and 2.1x graphics performance over G6 instances.
Amazon EC2 C9g, C9gd, M9g, and M9gd instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Seoul, Singapore) and Europe (Spain) regions, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors for improved compute performance.
Amazon EC2 M8id instances, featuring up to 22.8 TB of NVMe-based SSD local storage, are now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). Designed for workloads requiring a balance of compute and memory resources with high-speed, low-latency local block storage, these instances offer 3x more vCPUs, memory, and local storage compared to previous sixth-generation instances.
Amazon EC2 R8g instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, are ideal for memory-intensive workloads, offering up to 48xlarge instance sizes and up to 1.5TB of memory.
Amazon EC2 R8gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, offer up to 11.4 TB of NVMe-based SSD storage and provide flexibility to adjust network and EBS bandwidth by 25% using EC2 instance bandwidth weighting configuration.
Amazon EC2 C8gb instances are now generally available in additional regions, offering up to 30% better compute performance and higher EBS performance compared to Graviton3-based instances
Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 40% higher performance and up to 25% better price performance compared to Hpc7a instances
Amazon EC2 now supports AMI tag sharing, allowing AMI owners to make selected tags visible to all accounts an AMI is shared with. Shared tags are read-only for recipients and count only against the owner's tag quota
Amazon EC2 Future-dated Capacity Reservations now allow you to postpone the start date. Review and accept the quote showing the new start date and required commitment duration to update your reservation.
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region, featuring custom Intel Xeon 6 processors for enhanced performance and memory bandwidth.
Amazon EC2 I7ie instances are now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region, powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors delivering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance over existing I3en instances.
Amazon EC2 T8i instances feature custom 6th-gen Intel Xeon 6 processors, delivering up to 30% better price performance than T3 instances
Amazon EC2 X2idn instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and AWS Nitro System, are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region for memory-intensive workloads
AWS Systems Manager extends its diagnosis capability to identify six additional categories of issues preventing Amazon EC2 instances and hybrid-activated nodes from being managed
Amazon EC2 enables AMI owners to define which instance types are compatible with their AMIs, preventing launches on incompatible instances and reducing the risk of launch failures.
Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo) regions, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors for enhanced performance and security in memory-intensive workloads.
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 has launched C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors in the Tokyo region, offering up to 25% better compute performance than previous Graviton4-based instances.
Amazon EC2 introduces P6-B300 instances with 8xNVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs and 2.1TB GPU memory, enhancing training and deployment of large-scale foundation models.
Amazon SageMaker AI adds support for EC2 G6e instances in Batch Transform, enhancing performance for offline inference on large datasets
Amazon EC2 C8g instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei, New Zealand) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) regions. Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, these instances deliver up to 30% better performance compared to Graviton3-based instances.
Amazon EC2 launches R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors
Amazon EC2 launches C8gn instances with the latest Graviton4 processors in the Europe (Paris) region, offering up to 30% better compute performance and high-bandwidth networking
Amazon EC2 introduces P6-B300 instances in new regions, offering high-performance computing ideal for training and deploying large AI models with enhanced networking and memory
Amazon EC2 X8i instances launch in Europe (Milan and Spain) regions, offering high performance for memory-intensive workloads.
Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation Resource Groups now allow adding Capacity Blocks for ML and interruptible Capacity Reservations
Amazon EC2 introduces R8id instances in new regions, offering high-performance local storage and networking for memory-intensive workloads
Amazon EC2 has launched C8id and M8id instances in new regions, offering up to 22.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD storage and significant performance improvements over previous generations
Amazon EC2 launches new M8i and M8i-flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, offering improved performance and memory bandwidth over previous generations.
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 adds C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances powered by Graviton4 processors to new regions, offering up to 30% better performance and faster I/O for analytics and database workloads.
Amazon EC2 now supports creating AMIs with local snapshots from instances running on AWS Outposts, allowing snapshots to be stored either on the Outpost or in the parent AWS Region while meeting data residency requirements.
Amazon EC2 introduces High Memory U7i instances in the Europe (Zurich) region, offering large memory capacity and high-throughput processing for demanding workloads
Amazon EC2 introduces R8i instances in the Tel Aviv region, enhancing performance for memory-intensive workloads.
Amazon EC2 introduces R8a instances in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) region, offering up to 30% higher performance and 19% better price-performance over R7a instances
Amazon EC2 launches R8i and R8i-Flex instances in Canada West (Calgary), offering enhanced performance and cost efficiency for memory-intensive workloads
AWS Console-to-Code now supports 26 additional services and introduces cross-region and cross-browser-tab action recording, enabling developers and DevOps engineers to automate complex multi-region deployments more effectively.
AWS announces support for AWS Local Zones in Spot placement score, helping users identify locations where their Spot capacity request is most likely to succeed. Now, users can optionally include local zones in zonal and regional score responses for a broader view of Spot capacity options.
Amazon EC2 R8a instances feature 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, delivering up to 30% higher performance and 19% better price-performance over R7a instances
Amazon EC2's 7th generation High Memory U7i instances are now available in the São Paulo region, offering 24 TiB of DDR5 memory ideal for mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA and Oracle.
Amazon EC2 now offers application status checks, enabling monitoring of application health on EC2 instances. This helps detect issues like stopped web servers or incorrect network configurations.
Amazon EC2 launches R8i and R8i-Flex instances in the Europe (Milan) region, offering high performance and cost efficiency for memory-optimized workloads
Amazon EC2 G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs deliver up to 4.6x AI inference and 2.1x graphics performance compared to G6 instances
Amazon EC2 I7i instances feature 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors, offering up to 23% better compute performance and over 10% better price performance versus previous generation I4i instances, ideal for I/O-intensive and latency-sensitive workloads
Amazon EC2 C7i instances, powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, deliver up to 15% better price-performance versus C6i instances and are ideal for compute-intensive workloads
Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances deliver up to 19% better price-performance compared to C6i, ideal for compute-intensive workloads with sizes from large to 16xlarge.
AWS CodeDeploy is now available in five new regions, allowing developers and DevOps engineers to deploy applications with lower latency.
Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now allows creation of Host Resource Groups without requiring Self-Managed Licenses, offering greater flexibility for customers needing hardware-level isolation or using EC2 Mac instances.
Amazon EC2 I8ge instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, deliver up to 60% better compute performance and significantly improved storage performance for storage-optimized workloads
Amazon EC2 M8id instances feature Intel Xeon 6 processors, delivering up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth than previous generation M6id instances.
Amazon EC2 C7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 50% higher performance than C6a instances with DDR5 memory and support for up to 128 EBS volumes per instance.
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances are now available in new regions, offering 16TiB and 24TiB of DDR5 memory and high-throughput processing capabilities
Amazon EC2 M8a instances feature 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, delivering up to 30% higher performance and 19% better price-performance over M7a instances, ideal for latency-sensitive workloads.
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in the Europe (Stockholm, Zurich) regions. Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, they offer up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances.
Amazon EC2 U7in-24TB instances offer 24 TiB of DDR5 memory and 896 vCPUs, ideal for mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA and Oracle
Amazon EC2 now includes public SSM parameters in AMI metadata, simplifying AMI updates by providing direct access to the latest version via an alias
Amazon EC2 G7e instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, deliver up to 2.3x inference performance over G6e instances
Amazon EC2 G7 instances feature NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, delivering up to 4.6x AI inference and 2.1x graphics performance over G6 instances
Amazon EC2 introduces R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances in Tokyo, Frankfurt, and Ireland regions, featuring 6th-gen Intel Xeon processors and Nitro cards for up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU, with high network and EBS bandwidth for demanding workloads
Amazon EC2 M8gd and R8gd instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, featuring AWS Graviton4 processors and up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD storage for improved performance and storage access.
Amazon EC2 introduces C8id, M8id, and R8id instances in new regions, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors for up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth than previous generations
Amazon EC2 now allows replacing the root volume of a running instance with an existing EBS volume, eliminating the need for snapshot or AMI creation and reducing operational overhead for stateful workloads.
Amazon EC2 I7ie instances feature 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors with a 3.2 GHz all-core turbo frequency, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance over existing I3en instances, with up to 120TB of local NVMe storage and up to 65% better real-time storage performance.
Amazon EC2 M8gd and R8gd instances are now available in Europe and Asia Pacific regions, featuring up to 11.4TB of NVMe SSD storage and Graviton4 processors for up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances offer 12TB of memory and custom fourth-gen Intel Xeon processors, ideal for mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server
Amazon EC2 C8ine instances feature sixth-generation Intel Xeon processors, delivering up to 43% higher performance and significantly improved network throughput for security and network virtual appliances.
Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now support AMD SEV-SNP, enabling customers to run confidential computing workloads on fully dedicated physical servers with control over instance placement and host affinity.
Amazon EC2 X8i instances offer up to 43% higher performance and 1.5x more memory capacity compared to previous generation X2i instances, targeting memory-intensive workloads
Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring now includes new threat detections for sensitive file modifications on Amazon EC2, EKS, and ECS, helping identify post-compromise attacker activities.
Amazon EC2 launches C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, offering up to 25% better compute performance and featuring the Nitro Isolation Engine for enhanced security.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a new strategy that prioritizes launching instances into capacity reservations before evenly distributing remaining capacity across Availability Zones, maximizing utilization of pre-purchased capacity.
Amazon Time Sync Service now supports microsecond accurate time on 26 additional EC2 instance types, leveraging the AWS Nitro System for improved application event ordering and distributed transaction speeds
Amazon EC2 R8g instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, are now available in new regions, offering up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based instances for memory-intensive workloads.
Amazon EC2 C8in instances offer up to 384 vCPUs and 600 Gbps network bandwidth, ideal for network-intensive workloads
Amazon EC2 M8a instances feature 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, delivering up to 30% higher performance and 19% better price-performance over M7a instances, ideal for latency-sensitive workloads.
Amazon EC2 C7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 50% higher performance than C6a instances and support more EBS volume attachments
Amazon EC2 introduces AMI watermarks, allowing embedding of custom identifiers in private AMIs to enhance tracking and governance across the organization
Amazon EC2 U7in-24TB instances offer 24 TiB of DDR5 memory and 896 vCPUs, ideal for mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server
AWS now offers nested virtualization on additional Intel instances and AWS GovCloud (US) regions, enabling KVM or Hyper-V execution on virtual EC2 instances for various use cases.
Amazon EC2 G7 instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, deliver up to 4.6x AI inference and 2.1x graphics performance compared to G6
AWS Outposts introduces bmn-cx3a instances featuring 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors and up to 800 Gbps bare-metal accelerated networking, designed for high-throughput workloads like real-time market data and telecom 5G core networks.
Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances, accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, deliver up to 2x performance over P5en instances for AI training and inference
Amazon EC2 C7i instances, powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, are now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. They offer up to 15% better price-performance versus C6i instances, larger instance sizes up to 48xlarge, bare metal options, Intel AMX support, and up to 128 EBS volumes.
Amazon EC2 introduces C8i instances in the Europe (Stockholm) region, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, delivering up to 2.5x more memory bandwidth and 20% higher performance than C7i instances
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-8TB instances feature 4th-gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and 8 TiB of DDR5 memory, ideal for mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.
Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, allowing government and regulated-industry customers to reserve GPU capacity for machine learning workloads.
Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances are now generally available, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, delivering up to 25% better compute performance compared to previous generations.
Amazon EC2 future-dated Capacity Reservations now allow cancellation of reservations, with potential charges displayed for review before proceeding.
Amazon EC2 introduces metal-48xl and metal-96xl sizes for M8in, M8ib, M8idn, M8idb, R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances, powered by 6th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and AWS Nitro cards, delivering up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU and high network/EBS bandwidth
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