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Cloud Changelog
Amazon EC2 changelog July–December 2025
162 announcements, July–December 2025
All Amazon EC2 changes · 507 announcements since January 2025 · 69 GA · 6 previews · 3 price changes · 361 Region expansions
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December 202532
Availability Zone ID parameter supported across EC2 APIs for instances, volumes, subnets and moreGA
Supports EC2 Spot Instances at up to 90% discount versus On-Demand
Available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), South America (Sao Paulo), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo)Region
Graviton4 instances with up to 600 Gbps networking (M8gn) and 150 Gbps EBS bandwidth (M8gb)GA
Graviton4 instances added in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and (US-East)Region
Added in Asia Pacific (Thailand, Jakarta, Melbourne) and Middle East (UAE)Region
Intel Xeon 6 instances added in Asia Pacific (Singapore)Region
Available in Seoul, Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore and Canada (Central)Region
Added in Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Europe (Paris)Region
Added in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Jakarta) and Europe (Stockholm)Region
Graviton4 EBS-optimized instances with up to 150 Gbps EBS bandwidth and sizes up to 24xlargeGA
Graviton4-based memory-optimized instances added in Asia Pacific (Sydney)Region
Graviton4 network-optimized instances added in US East (Ohio) and Middle East (UAE)Region
Graviton4-based memory-optimized instances added in Europe (Stockholm)Region
Graviton5-based instances with up to 25% better compute performance than M8gPreview
AMD EPYC Turin instances reach 5GHz, up to 2x compute performance over M5znPreview
NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 instances with 1.5x GPU memory and 1.5x FP4 compute versus P6e-GB200GA
Memory optimized instances on Intel Xeon 6 with up to 6 TB memoryPreview
Memory optimized instances on 5th Gen AMD EPYC with 5 GHz, up to 3,072 GiB memoryGA
Mac Studio-based instances with 16-core CPU, 40-core GPU and 128GB memoryPreview
Trainium3 servers scale to 144 chips, up to 4.4x performance over Trn2GA
5th Gen AMD EPYC instances with up to 30% higher performance than C7aGA
Memory optimized instances with 5th Gen AMD EPYC, 5 GHz, up to 3,072 GiB memory
November 202539
Unused reserved capacity can be lent to other workloads and reclaimed anytime, at no extra cost
u7i-6tb.112xlarge with 6TB memory available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta)Region
Automatic versioning for recipes and build version incrementing for componentsGA
Distribute existing AMIs, retry distributions and define custom distribution workflows
In-console installation and tag-based policies manage the agent across EC2 instances
Run macOS Tahoe (version 26) AMIs on Apple silicon instancesGA
License-Included AMIs for SQL Server 2025 in all commercial and GovCloud (US) RegionsGA
U7i instances added in Europe (Ireland), Hyderabad, Mumbai and GovCloud (US-West)Region
Instances added in Sydney, Canada (Central) and US West (N. California)Region
8 Blackwell Ultra GPUs, 2.1 TB GPU memory, 6.4 Tbps EFA; US West (Oregon)GA
Available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne, Mumbai, Osaka) and Middle East (UAE)Region
Repository of pre-built EPEL9 packages compatible with Amazon Linux 2023GA
License-included SQL Server instances in an HA cluster can save up to 40% of HA costsPrice
12TB u7i-12tb.224xlarge instances added in Europe (Ireland)Region
Image workflows can invoke Lambda functions and run Step Functions state machinesGA
24TB u7in-24tb.224xlarge instances added in US East (Ohio)Region
Available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Seoul, Hong Kong)Region
Available in Europe (Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Osaka)Region
Storage optimized instances added in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and South America (Sao Paulo)Region
12TB u7i-12tb.224xlarge available in Europe (Stockholm)Region
Remote desktop support for EC2 Mac instances on Apple silicon, with 4K and 60 FPS
New columns and hourly granularity for ODCR and Capacity Blocks for ML usage and cost
C6id added in Europe (Milan), R6id in Africa (Cape Town)Region
Added in London, Canada (Central) and São Paulo, depending on instance typeRegion
6TB memory u7i-6tb.112xlarge added in Stockholm and IrelandRegion
Added in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Canada (Central)Region
Added in US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo)Region
12TB, 16TB and 24TB instances available in AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsRegion
Memory-optimized instances on 5th Gen AMD EPYC, up to 30% faster than R7aGA
Guided deployment of EC2 instances with SQL Server Developer Edition from your own media
October 202534
u7i-8tb.112xlarge instances available in Europe (London)Region
Two metrics flag when instances exceed EBS-optimized IOPS or throughput limits
6TB High Memory u7i-6tb.112xlarge instances added in US East (Ohio)Region
U7i-6tb instances (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) added in Europe (London)Region
Monitor and manage On-Demand, Spot and Capacity Reservation usage across accounts and RegionsGA
Available in Europe (Milan) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Osaka, Melbourne)Region
Graviton4-based instances added in Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Sydney, Thailand)Region
Customize vCPU count or disable hyperthreading on Windows and SQL Server license-included instances
Available in Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Canada (Central) and Middle East (Bahrain)Region
u7i-12tb.224xlarge instances with 12TiB memory and 896 vCPUs added in MumbaiRegion
Storage optimized instances available in Europe (Spain)Region
Network optimized instances available in Mexico (Central)Region
Network optimized instances available in Asia Pacific (Seoul)Region
AMD EPYC Turin-based instances with up to 30% higher performance than M7a, in 3 RegionsGA
Available in London, Sydney, Malaysia and Canada (Central)Region
Available in Ireland, Sydney, Malaysia, São Paulo and Canada (Central)Region
Intel Xeon 6 instances with up to 15% better price-performance than prior generationGA
Pipelines disable automatically after consecutive failures; custom log groups supported
September 202518
Boot and data volumes supported from Dell PowerStore and HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 arrays
Storage optimized instances added in Europe (Milan) and US West (N. California)Region
Graviton4 network optimized instances added in Frankfurt, Stockholm and SingaporeRegion
Adds marketplace codes, deprecation time, creation date and AMI name parameters
Graviton4 instances with up to 150 Gbps EBS bandwidth, 24xlarge and metal sizes, in 2 RegionsGA
Cryptographically verifies instances run trusted software using NitroTPM and Attestable AMIsGA
Graviton4-based storage optimized instances added in Europe (Frankfurt)Region
Supports EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML in PCS clusters via launch templates
Storage optimized instances added in São Paulo and CalgaryRegion
Detailed performance stats with 11 metrics at one-second granularity, at no extra charge
Available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Singapore) and Europe (Frankfurt)Region
Graviton4 instances with up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth and 1,536 GiB memoryGA
Mac instances with up to 20% faster builds than M2, in two RegionsGA
Network optimized instances available in Asia Pacific (Thailand)Region
Storage optimized Graviton4 instances available in US East (Ohio)Region
Available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Canada (Central)Region
August 202522
Graviton4 storage optimized instances with up to 120 TB local NVMe storage and 300 Gbps networkingGA
U7i-12tb instances now offered in Asia Pacific (Seoul)Region
General-purpose instances on Intel Xeon 6 with up to 15% better price-performanceGA
Adds Host Recovery and Reboot-based Host Maintenance across all Mac instance families
Graviton4-based instances available in US West (N. California)Region
Intel-based instances available in Asia Pacific (Osaka)Region
Storage optimized instances added in Frankfurt, London, Malaysia, Sydney and TokyoRegion
Memory-optimized instances on Intel Xeon 6, up to 15% better price-performance than prior generationGA
Graviton4-powered instances available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta)Region
Graviton4-based instances added in Asia Pacific (Jakarta)Region
Added in Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and US West (N. California)Region
Graviton4-based instances added in Asia Pacific (Seoul)Region
NVIDIA L4 GPU instances added in AWS GovCloud (US-East)Region
Added in Middle East (Bahrain), Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta)Region
Available in Asia Pacific (Seoul, Jakarta, Hyderabad, Thailand)Region
July 202517
GPU instances with NVIDIA L4 partitions as small as one-eighth of a GPU, 3 GB memoryGA
Graviton4-based memory-optimized instances added in US East (Ohio)Region
Blackwell GPU instances added in US East (N. Virginia)Region
Added in Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central)Region
Available in Malaysia, Thailand and Mexico (Central) RegionsRegion
EBS-optimized performance rises to 560,000 IOPS and 100 Gbps at no extra cost
Added in Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai)Region
Up to 72 Blackwell GPUs per NVLink domain, via Capacity Blocks in Dallas Local ZoneGA
Graviton4-based instances added in Asia Pacific (Singapore)Region
Added in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia)Region