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Cloud Changelog
Amazon EC2 changelog January–June 2025
119 announcements, January–June 2025
All Amazon EC2 changes · 507 announcements since January 2025 · 69 GA · 6 previews · 3 price changes · 361 Region expansions
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June 202528
Graviton4 instances with up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth and 48xlarge sizeGA
Added in Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and AWS GovCloud (US-East)Region
Available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Europe (Zurich)Region
u7i-8tb.112xlarge with 8TiB memory and 448 vCPUs added in US West (Oregon)Region
Graviton4-based instances added in Canada (Central) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia)Region
Storage-optimized instances with up to 120TB local NVMe added in Europe (Spain)Region
Instances with up to 7.6 TB local NVMe SSD added in AWS Secret RegionRegion
New IncludeInstances parameter omits instance details from DescribeAutoScalingGroups responses
Available in Asia Pacific (Osaka, Jakarta) and South America (Sao Paulo)Region
1-year plans for P5 and P5en instances, saving up to 40% versus On-DemandPrice
Available in Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) RegionsRegion
12xlarge and 16xlarge sizes available in Europe (London) RegionRegion
Storage optimized Graviton4 instances available in Europe (Ireland)Region
Underlying EBS snapshots can be deleted automatically when deregistering AMIs, at no extra cost
P5, P5en, P4d and P4de prices cut by up to 45%; P6-B200 gets savings plansPrice
Support added for 120 more EC2 instance types across several families
Available for EC2 instances in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions at no additional costRegion
6TiB DDR5 memory, 448 vCPUs instances added in Europe (Frankfurt)Region
Storage-optimized instances with up to 30 TB NVMe added in Europe (Spain)Region
May 202519
Starting with RHEL 10, offers AWS-tuned images with CloudWatch telemetry and AWS CLI integrationGA
Graviton4 instances with local NVMe SSD added in Europe (Spain) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo)Region
EC2 restores can set custom EBS volume type, size, IOPS and KMS keys via block device mappings
NxD Inference moves to GA; adds Context Parallelism, ORPO, PyTorch 2.6 and JAX 0.5.3 supportGA
Names can resolve to IPv6 AAAA records for instances and ENIs
System Integrity Protection settings can be configured on Intel and Apple silicon instances
18TB u-18tb1.112xlarge instances available in US East (Ohio)Region
Rebooting after a scheduled reboot notice migrates the instance to different hardware
Instances with 8 NVIDIA B200 GPUs, offering up to 2x P5en performance, in US West (Oregon)GA
Windows instances can launch with only an AMI ID, no launch template or default VPC
ENA queues can be allocated across network interfaces from the instance's total queue pool
Memory-optimized instances available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne)Region
Available in seven more Regions including UAE, Calgary, Paris, Zurich, Jakarta, Osaka, Tel AvivRegion
H200 GPU instances available in US West (N. California)Region
12xlarge and 16xlarge sizes available in Asia Pacific (Seoul)Region
April 202522
Integrates with SSM Parameter Store for image recipes, components and distribution
24TB u-24tb1.112xlarge instances available in US East (Ohio)Region
Storage optimized instances with up to 45TB NVMe and up to 50% better storage performance than I4iGA
Graviton2-based storage optimized instances added in Asia Pacific (Sydney)Region
Graviton4-based instances added in US West (N. California)Region
Added in GovCloud (US-West), Canada (Central) and Europe (London)Region
Added in Europe (London) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Osaka)Region
Graviton4 instances with up to 11.4 TB local NVMe SSD, in three US RegionsGA
Available in Sydney, London, N. California and Sao PauloRegion
General-purpose instances added in Asia Pacific (Melbourne)Region
Supports 57 more EC2 instance types, including P5e, G6e, I8g and M8g
Network optimized instances with up to 200Gbps bandwidth added in Asia Pacific (Osaka)Region
Graviton4-based general-purpose instances added in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and (Hyderabad)Region
Memory-optimized instances with up to 48xlarge sizes offered in AWS Secret RegionRegion
March 202518
Graviton4-based instances available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)Region
Graviton4-powered instances available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo)Region
Graviton4-powered instances available in US West (N. California)Region
Available in US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta)Region
Instances added in Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) RegionsRegion
New AWS Config rule detects instances launched with AMIs that are not allowed
Graviton4-based instances added in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)Region
February 202519
Block Device Mapping can be overridden from the Launch Template at fleet launch
FPGA-powered instances available in Asia Pacific (Sydney)Region
NVIDIA L4 GPU instances available in the AWS Secret RegionRegion
3 TiB u-3tb1.56xlarge instances available in Europe (Zurich)Region
Available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) with up to 3.8 TB local NVMe SSDRegion
Available in the Chicago and New York City Local ZonesRegion
Available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Melbourne, Osaka) and AWS GovCloud (US-East)Region
Added to several new Regions, plus new instance types in existing RegionsRegion
Graviton4-based instances available in Europe (London)Region
Automated recovery of SQL Server from VSS-based EBS snapshots using Systems Manager runbook
January 202513
Available in Europe (Frankfurt, London) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo)Region
1-click connectivity to EC2 from console, plus CloudShell connection to cache with valkey-cli
Provisioning control for targeting reservations added in both AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsRegion
Converts Windows ISO files directly to AMIs, in all commercial Regions