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Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Volume Clones now supports copying EBS volumes across AWS accounts with re-encryption. You can copy EBS volumes to any AWS account, re-encrypting with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the target account. This enables organizations that separate production and development workloads into different accounts to copy data across those account boundaries. With cross-account copy, you can clone a production database volume into an isolated development account, giving developers a fresh copy of production data to experiment with safely. This capability also supports teams that require encryption …
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AWS Transform is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, enabling government agencies and regulated organizations to plan and execute large-scale migrations to AWS. With this launch, customers operating in AWS GovCloud (US) can use the migration capabilities of AWS Transform to automate server migrations within an isolated environment designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads. AWS Transform in this Region supports migrating servers to both AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) as target Regions. Organizations migrating VMware, bare metal, Hyper-V, or database workloads can use AWS Transform to automate s…
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Amazon S3 Object Lock now supports variable retention, allowing you to apply write-once-read-many (WORM) protection to objects whose required retention period starts with a future event, such as a contract closing or an audit completing. You place an event hold with a retention duration on an object and S3 protects the object while the hold is in place. When you release the hold, S3 retains the object for the duration you specified. Unlike legal holds, which end protection immediately upon removal, event holds provide WORM compliance for the required retention period after the triggering event, so you can meet event-based retention requireme…
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Amazon EC2 now enables AMI owners to define which instance types are compatible with their AMIs. Owners can specify supported instance types, unsupported instance types, or both — and any launch attempt on a non-permitted instance type is automatically blocked. AMI owners now have a built-in way to prevent launches on instances that are not compatible with their AMIs. This reduces the risk of failed launches due to incompatible instance-AMI pairings. By default, an AMI can be launched on any instance type, so existing workflows remain unaffected until restrictions are explicitly applied. This feature is available in all AWS Regions at no add…
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Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei, New Zealand), and AWS GovCloud (US-East) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 C8g instances are built for compute-intensive workloads, such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, stora…
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Amazon SageMaker AI now supports Amazon EC2 G6e instances for batch transform. Batch Transform enables you to run predictions on datasets stored in Amazon S3 and is suited for large datasets that do not require a persistent inference endpoint. Amazon EC2 G6e instances are powered by up to eight NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs with 48 GB of memory per GPU and third-generation AMD EPYC processors. G6e instances deliver improved performance for GPU-intensive workloads. With this launch, you can use G6e instances for GPU-intensive offline inference workloads, including large language models and diffusion models that generate images, video, and audi…
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Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed CPUs, delivering the best price performance for compute-intensive workloads running on Amazon EC2. C9g and C9gd instances deliver up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton4-based C8g and C8gd instances. They are up to 30% faster for databases, up to 35% faster for web applications, and up to 35% faster for machine learning. These instances are built on the sixth-generation AWS Nitro Syste…
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Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M9g and M9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo) regions. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed CPUs, delivering the best price performance for memory-intensive workloads running on Amazon EC2. M9g and M9gd instances deliver up to 25% better performance compared to AWS Graviton4-based M8g and M8gd instances. They are up to 30% faster for databases. These instances are built on the sixth-generation AWS Nitro System and are the first to feature the Nitro Isolation Eng…
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Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P6-B200 instances accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. These instances offer up to 2x performance compared to P5en instances for AI training and inference. P6-B200 instances feature 8 Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and a 60% increase in GPU memory bandwidth compared to P5en, 5th Generation Intel Xeon processors (Emerald Rapids), and up to 3.2 terabits per second of Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFAv4) networking. P6-B200 instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System, so you can reliably and securely scale AI…
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Starting today, Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) P6-B300 instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. P6-B300 instances provide 8xNVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with 2.1 TB high bandwidth GPU memory, 6.4 Tbps EFA networking, 300 Gbps dedicated ENA throughput, and 4 TB of system memory. P6-B300 instances deliver 2x networking bandwidth, 1.5x GPU memory size, and 1.5x GPU TFLOPS (at FP4, without sparsity) compared to P6-B200 instances, making them well suited to train and deploy large trillion-parameter foundation models (FMs) including large language models (LLMs) with sophisticated techniques. The higher networking…
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AWS Transform for migrations adds Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as a generally available storage target for block storage workloads, alongside Amazon EBS. With AWS Transform, you can now migrate block storage directly to FSx for ONTAP as part of the same migration wave that handles compute and networks, eliminating the need for intermediate storage platforms and separate migration tools. Whether migrating from NetApp ONTAP, other block storage platforms, or VMware environments, your data access patterns and operational processes remain unchanged with FSx for ONTAP. Now your workloads run on a fully managed, production-ready shared storage serv…
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The Web Search built-in server-side tool on Amazon Bedrock is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), helping bring grounded web results to compliance-sensitive government and public-sector workloads. Web Search helps supported OpenAI GPT models ground responses with information from the web. Responses include citations to the sources the model used so users can trace each claim back to its web origin. This can be especially valuable whenever an answer depends on information that changes over time or is more recent than a model's training data, such as current events, recent releases or live pricing. Because the tool runs inside Amazon Bedr…
