AWS News Blog
Category: Amazon EC2
Announcing up to 45% price reduction for Amazon EC2 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances
AWS announces significant price reductions of up to 45 percent for NVIDIA GPU-accelerated EC2 instances, increasing accessibility to these high-demand resources for generative AI workloads amid industry-wide GPU shortages.
New Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to accelerate AI innovations
The P6-B200 EC2 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell B200 GPUs offer up to twice the performance of previous P5en instances for machine learning and high-performance computing workloads.
AWS Weekly Roundup: South America expansion, Q Developer in OpenSearch, and more (May 12, 2025)
I’ve always been fascinated by how quickly we’re able to stand up new Regions and Availability Zones at AWS. Today there are 36 launched Regions and 114 launched Availability Zones. That’s amazing! This past week at AWS was marked by significant expansion to our global infrastructure. The announcement of a new Region in the works […]
Announcing second-generation AWS Outposts racks with breakthrough performance and scalability on-premises
AWS announces significant upgrades to Outposts racks, featuring the latest x86-powered EC2 instances and new accelerated networking options designed for ultra-low latency and high-throughput on-premises workloads.
New Amazon EC2 Graviton4-based instances with NVMe SSD storage
AWS introduces new EC2 instance families (C8gd, M8gd, R8gd) powered by Graviton4 processors with NVMe SSD storage, offering up to 30% better performance, 3x more vCPUs and memory, and up to 11.4TB local storage compared to Graviton3-based predecessors.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Cloud Club Captain Applications, Formula 1®, Amazon Nova Prompt Engineering, and more (Feb 24, 2025)
AWS Developer Day 2025, held on February 20th, showcased how to integrate responsible generative AI into development workflows. The event featured keynotes from AWS leaders including Srini Iragavarapu, Director Generative AI Applications and Developer Experiences, Jeff Barr, Vice President of AWS Evangelism, David Nalley, Director Open Source Marketing of AWS, along with AWS Heroes and technical […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: New AWS Mexico (Central) Region, simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts, and more (January 20, 2025)
As winter maintains its hold over where I live in the Netherlands, rare moments of sunlight become precious gifts. This weekend offered one such treasure—while cycling along a quiet canal, golden rays broke through the typically gray Dutch sky, creating a perfect moment of serenity. These glimpses of brightness feel particularly special during January, when […]
New Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh instance on HPE Server for large in-memory databases
Leverage 1920 vCPUs and 32TB memory with high-performance U7inh instances from AWS, powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors; seamlessly migrate SAP HANA and other mission-critical workloads while benefiting from cloud scalability and cost savings.