Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to…

AWS announces Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances, the next generation of high performance computing optimized instance, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin). With a maximum frequency of 4.5GHz, Hpc8a instances deliver up to 40% higher performance…

AWS Backup now supports AWS PrivateLink for SAP HANA systems running on Amazon EC2. This enables customers to route all backup traffic through private network connections without traversing the public internet, helping organizations meet security and compliance requirements for regulated…

Starting today, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) offers Long-Term Support (LTS) on DocumentDB 5.0, enabling customers to reduce database upgrade frequency and maintenance overhead. LTS versions will receive only critical stability and security patches without introducing new features. To get…

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are now available in new regions - U7i-6tb.112xlarge instances in AWS South America (Sao Paulo) and Europe (Milan), U7i-12tb.224xlarge in AWS GovCloud (US-East), and U7in-16tb.224xlarge instances in Europe (London). U7i instances are part of AWS…

Starting today, customers can create nested environments within virtualized Amazon EC2 instances. Previously, customers could only create and manage virtual machines inside bare metal EC2 instances. With this launch, customers can create nested virtual machines by running KVM or Hyper-V…