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Cloud Changelog
Amazon EC2 changelog
436 announcements since January 2025 · 24 GA · 1 preview · 135 Region expansions
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November 20261
October 202614
Open source native PyTorch backend for Trainium on EC2 Trainium2 and Trainium3 instancesPreview
Builds images on running instances from an Auto Scaling Group instead of launching new ones
Microsecond-accurate time on 135 more EC2 instance types across 12 families
Pre-synced Ethereum and Solana node data in S3 at no charge, in 3 Regions
Available in Europe (Frankfurt) and Europe (Stockholm)Region
Graviton5 instances added in Malaysia, Seoul, Singapore (C9g/C9gd) and Malaysia, Spain (M9g/M9gd)Region
Available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Sydney)Region
Graviton4 instances with local NVMe storage added in European Sovereign Cloud (Germany)Region
Graviton4 memory-optimized instances added in European Sovereign Cloud (Germany)Region
Graviton4 instances with local NVMe storage added in more RegionsRegion
Graviton4 instances added in US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), EU and Cape TownRegion
Owners make selected tags visible to accounts an AMI is shared with
September 202615
Start dates can be postponed, with a quote showing new start and commitment duration
I7ie storage optimized instances added in Israel (Tel Aviv) RegionRegion
Burstable Intel Xeon 6 instances in four sizes with up to 30% better price performance than T3GA
Memory-optimized instances available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)Region
AMI owners can specify supported or unsupported instance types, and other launches are blockedGA
Available in Asia Pacific (Taipei, New Zealand) and AWS GovCloud (US-East)Region
Graviton5-powered instances available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo)Region
NVIDIA Blackwell GPU instances available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)Region
August 202623
Graviton5 memory optimized instances with up to 25% better compute performance than R8gGA
Available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and South America (Sao Paulo)Region
C8id in Sydney and Canada (Central); M8id in Mumbai and Canada (Central)Region
Added in Mumbai, Malaysia, Sydney, Canada (Central), Ireland and StockholmRegion
Groups can now include Capacity Blocks for ML and interruptible Capacity Reservations
Available in Singapore, Mexico (Central), Melbourne and ZurichRegion
AMIs can be created with snapshots stored locally on Outposts or in the parent Region
Adds 26 services, for 32 total, and cross-region and cross-tab action recording
Zonal and regional scores can optionally include Local Zones capacity
U7in-24TB instances available in South America (São Paulo)Region
New status check probes application port and path over HTTP or HTTPS every 60 secondsGA
Storage optimized instances added in Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Israel (Tel Aviv)Region
July 202623
Host Resource Groups can be created without self-managed licenses or AMI association
U7in-16TB in São Paulo and U7in-24TB in Europe (Ireland)Region
Describing a public AMI now returns its associated public SSM parameter
Added in Europe (Frankfurt, Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai)Region
Available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland)Region
Available in US East (N. Virginia) with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPUsRegion
Storage optimized instances added in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), up to 120TB local NVMeRegion
Added in Mumbai, Stockholm and London Regions for selected instance typesRegion
Graviton4 instances with local NVMe added in GovCloud (US-East, US-West)Region
Existing EBS volume can be the target, skipping snapshot or AMI creation
Added in Europe and Asia Pacific Regions, including Paris, Mumbai and OsakaRegion
Supports AMD SEV-SNP for confidential computing on dedicated physical serversGA
June 202622
Microsecond accurate time on 26 more EC2 instance types using Precision Time Placement Groups
Graviton5 compute optimized instances with up to 25% better compute performance than C8gGA
Available in Thailand, New Zealand, Cape Town, Milan and Calgary RegionsRegion
Available in US East (Ohio) and Europe (Ireland) RegionsRegion
Custom identifiers embedded in private AMIs carry over to copies and derived AMIs
NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPU instances, up to 4.6x AI inference over G6, in two RegionsGA
Support added for more Intel instance families and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West)
AMD-based instances with up to 800 Gbps accelerated networking on second-generation racks
Reserve GPU capacity on P6-B200 and P6-B300 instances in GovCloud (US-West, US-East)Region
u7i-8tb.112xlarge with 8 TiB memory available in Europe (Paris)Region
Future-dated reservations can be cancelled, with a possible charge shown as a quote
Graviton5 instances with up to 25% better compute performance than M8g, in 4 RegionsGA
metal-48xl and metal-96xl sizes added for network/EBS instances in US East (N. Virginia)GA
May 202618
Available in Singapore, Sydney and AWS GovCloud (US-West) RegionsRegion
U7i-12TB and U7in-16TB instances added in Europe (Paris)Region
Available in Europe (Ireland), with 5 GHz AMD EPYC processorsRegion
Supports traffic between Availability Zones with up to 25 Gbps single-flow bandwidthGA
Available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai)Region
Intel Xeon 6 memory-optimized instances with up to 600 Gbps network and 300 Gbps EBS bandwidthGA
Intel Xeon 6 general purpose instances with up to 600 Gbps network and 300 Gbps EBS bandwidthGA
Available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) with 8 Blackwell GPUs and 1440 GB GPU memoryRegion
Available in US East (N. Virginia) with 8 Blackwell Ultra GPUs and 2.1 TB GPU memoryRegion
Install and manage as an EKS add-on through console and CLIGA
Available in Paris, Thailand, Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo RegionsRegion
April 202617
Graviton4-based instances added in Europe (Milan) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)Region
Network and EBS optimized instances with up to 600 Gbps network and 300 Gbps EBS bandwidthGA
Memory optimized instances with up to 600 Gbps network and 300 Gbps EBS bandwidthGA
Network optimized instances with up to 2.5x packet performance per vCPU versus prior generationGA
U7i-8TB in Stockholm and Zurich, U7in-16TB in Ohio, U7in-24TB in StockholmRegion
Available in Europe (Ireland, London) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand)Region
Available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand)Region
New managed resources are hidden by default from console views and describe API responses
AWS Health notifications when no valid SQL Server HA status is detected
U7i-8TB and U7i-12TB instances added in Asia Pacific (Singapore)Region
Sixth generation Intel Xeon instances with up to 384 vCPUs, 600 Gbps network bandwidthGA
Available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) with 8 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUsRegion
March 202623
U7i-8TB and U7i-12TB instances added in Europe (Milan)Region
Added in Stockholm, Mumbai, Malaysia, Singapore and Sydney RegionsRegion
Available in 6 more Regions, including N. California, Seoul, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Cape Town, CalgaryRegion
Available in 7 more Regions, including Hong Kong, Seoul, Zurich and Mexico (Central)Region
Added in Jakarta, Hyderabad, Tokyo, Sao Paulo and ZurichRegion
u7i-6tb.112xlarge available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia)Region
Added in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and AWS GovCloud (US-West)Region
C8gd added in South America (Sao Paulo), M8gd in Europe (Ireland)Region
u7i-8tb in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), u7i-12tb in Europe (Spain)Region
Instances added in Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)Region
Available in Middle East (UAE), Mexico (Central) and Europe (Zurich)Region
Available in Cape Town, Malaysia, Milan, Zurich and CalgaryRegion
February 202633
Lifecycle policies support wildcard patterns, and console pre-populates default IAM role permissions
Graviton4 storage optimized metal instance with 1,536 GiB memory and 45 TB local storageGA
New metal-24xl and metal-48xl sizes in US East (N. Virginia)GA
Instances added in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) RegionRegion
Added in Malaysia, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, Frankfurt and Canada (Central)Region
U7i and U7in instances added in Sao Paulo, Milan, GovCloud (US-East) and LondonRegion
Memory-optimized instances added in Europe (Stockholm)Region
5GHz AMD EPYC instances with up to 96 vCPUs and 384 GiB memoryGA
Available in Europe (Paris), Canada (Central), and US West (N. California)Region
Available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Middle East (UAE)Region
Available in Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Spain) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo)Region
Amazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in additional regions
Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS Canada (Central)
Amazon EC2 capacity blocks for ML can be shared across multiple accounts
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-6TB instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Amazon EC2 G7e instances now available in US West (Oregon) region
Amazon EC2 and VPC now display related resources for security groups
January 202618
Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Europe (Spain) and Europe (Frankfurt) Regions
Amazon EC2 R7gd instances are now available in Europe (Paris) Region
EC2 Auto Scaling Introduces New Mechanisms for Group Deletion Protection
Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances
Amazon EC2 C8i instances are now available in AWS Europe (London) region
Now available: 48xlarge and metal-48xl sizes for EBS optimized Amazon EC2 instances
Amazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in additional regions
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in additional regions
Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul) regions
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in additional AWS regions
Amazon EC2 M8i instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in additional AWS regions
Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are now available in additional AWS regions
Amazon EC2 G5 instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region