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Default credit specification at the account level

You can set the default credit specification per burstable performance instance family at the account level per AWS Region.

Instance type discovery

You can find an instance type that meets your needs.

Instance Metadata Service Version 2

You can use Instance Metadata Service Version 2, which is a session-oriented method for requesting instance metadata.

Hibernation support for On-Demand Windows instances

You can hibernate On-Demand Windows instances.

Queued purchases of Reserved Instances

You can queue the purchase of a Reserved Instance up to three years in advance.

Diagnostic interrupt

You can send a diagnostic interrupt to an unreachable or unresponsive instance to trigger a kernel panic.

Capacity optimized allocation strategy

Using EC2 Fleet or Spot Fleet, you can launch Spot Instances from Spot pools with optimal capacity for the number of instances that are launching.

On-Demand Capacity Reservation sharing

You can now share your Capacity Reservations across AWS accounts.

Elastic Fabric Adapter

EFA now supports Open MPI 3.1.4 and Intel MPI 2019 Update 4.

EC2 Instance Connect

EC2 Instance Connect is a simple and secure way to connect to your instances using Secure Shell (SSH).

Host recovery

Automatically restart your instances on a new host in the event of an unexpected hardware failure on a Dedicated Host.

VSS application-consistent snapshots

Take application-consistent snapshots of all Amazon EBS volumes attached to your Windows instances using AWS Systems Manager Run Command.

Windows to Linux Replatforming Assistant for Microsoft SQL Server Databases

Move existing Microsoft SQL Server workloads from a Windows to a Linux operating system. Updated link points to the Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon...

Windows Automated Upgrade

Perform automated upgrades of EC2 Windows instances using AWS Systems Manager.

Elastic Fabric Adapter

You can attach an Elastic Fabric Adapter to your instances to accelerate High Performance Computing (HPC) applications.

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