Amazon
AMI alias in launch templates
You can specify an AWS Systems Manager parameter instead of the AMI ID in your launch templates to avoid having to update the templates every time...
Read More
Hibernation support for C6i, I3en, and M6i
Hibernate your newly-launched instances running on C6i, I3en, and M6i instance types.
Read More
Torn write prevention
Improve the performance of your I/O-intensive relational database workloads and reduce latency without negatively impacting data resiliency with...
Read More
ENA Express
Increase throughput and minimize tail latency of network traffic between EC2 instances with ENA Express.
Read More
Copy AMI tags
When you copy an AMI, you can copy your user-defined AMI tags at the same time.
Read More
AMI size for store and restore
The size of an AMI (before compression) that can be stored and restored to and from an Amazon S3 bucket can now be up to 5,000 GB.
Read More
price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy for Spot Instances
An EC2 Fleet that uses the price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy looks at both price and capacity to select the Spot Instances pools that...
Read More
Cancel having an AMI shared with your account
If an AMI has been shared with your AWS account and you no longer want it shared with your account, you can remove your account from the AMI's...
Read More
Transfer Elastic IP addresses
You can now transfer Elastic IP addresses from one AWS account to another.
Read More
Replace root volume
You can replace the root Amazon EBS volume for a running instance using an AMI.
Read More
Automatically connect instance to database
Use the automatic connection feature to quickly connect one or more EC2 instances to an RDS database to allow traffic between them.
Read More
AMI quotas
Quotas now apply to creating and sharing AMIs.
Read More
Configure AMI for IMDSv2
Configure your AMI so that instances launched from the AMI require IMDSv2 by default.
Read More
Initiate Spot Instance interruption
You can select a Spot Instance in the Amazon EC2 console and initiate an interruption so that you can test how the applications on your Spot...
Read More
Verified AMI provider
In the Amazon EC2 console, public AMIs that are owned by Amazon or a verified Amazon partner are marked Verified provider.
Read More
Featured Blogs
- AWS Config integration with Allowed AMIs
- Identify source AMI
- IMDSv2 enforcement
- Nested virtualization
- Interruptible Capacity Reservations
- AMI ancestry
- Optimize CPUs for license savings
- New EC2 Capacity Manager
- AWSEC2CapacityManagerServiceRolePolicy – new managed policy
- GPUPowerUtilization metric
- Detailed performance statistics for instance store volumes
- Amazon EC2 Mac Dedicated Host updates
- AmazonEC2ImageReferencesAccessPolicy – new managed policy
- AMI usage reports
- AMI references
- Modify EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint
- Updated managed policy for EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint
- Instance topology - additional Region support
- Skip OS shutdown during instance termination
- Skip OS shutdown during instance stop
- P6-B200 Capacity Blocks in us-east-1
- EC2 Serial Console - additional Region support
- Hardware packet timestamping
- Delete snapshots during AMI deregistration
- User-initiated reboot migration
- SIP configuration for Amazon EC2 Mac instances
- Root volume ownership delegation
- Updated managed policies for the EC2 Fast Launch service linked role
- Simplified onboarding for EC2 Fast Launch
- AWS Config integration with Allowed AMIs
- Updated AWSEC2CapacityReservationFleetRolePolicy managed policy
- Time-based AMI copies
- Move capacity
- Amazon Q EC2 instance type selector
- EC2 Free Tier
- IMDS Package Analyzer
- Automatically connect instance to database
- EC2 Fleet and targeted On-Demand Capacity Reservations
- Use Amazon EventBridge to monitor EC2 Fleet events
- Instance metadata provides instance location and placement information
- Dedicated Hosts and host resource groups
- Updated AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess policy
- Managed instances
- Allowed AMIs
- Extend Capacity Block
- Saved filter sets
- Performance protection
- Capacity Reservations only
- Identify source AMI
- Beginner tutorials
- Live migration host maintenance
- Billing assignment for shared Capacity Reservations
- PTP hardware clock - additional Region support
- EC2 Instance Connect prefix lists
- New capabilities to manage On-Demand Capacity Reservations
- Additional instance types supported for Credential Guard
- New managed policy for EC2 Fast Launch
- AMI deregistration protection
- Added Nitro performance considerations for enhanced networking
- New managed policy for VSS based EBS snapshots
- Set IMDSv2 as the account default
- Tag new Linux AMIs created from a snapshot
- Tag new AMIs and snapshots when copying
- EC2 Instance Connect preinstalled on macOS AMIs
- EC2 Instance Connect support for CentOS, macOS, and RHEL
- Amazon Q EC2 instance type selector
- EC2 Free Tier
- Console-to-Code
- Configurable idle connection tracking timeouts
- PTP hardware clock
- Change instance type of instance enabled for hibernation
- Instance topology
- EC2 Fast Launch shared AMI support
- Capacity Blocks for ML
- Spot Instance hibernation
- Default settings for block public access for AMIs
- Amazon EC2 Global View
- Disable an AMI
- Attached EBS status checks
- Block public access to AMIs
- EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint
- IMDS Package Analyzer
- EC2 Serial Console bare metal instances
- Launch template quotas
- Capacity Reservation utilization notifications
- Capacity Reservation groups
- Modify instance metadata options
- In-place macOS operating system updates
- UEFI preferred
- Windows Virtualization-based security - Credential Guard
- AMI alias in launch templates
- Hibernation support for C6i, I3en, and M6i
- Torn write prevention
- ENA Express
- Copy AMI tags
- AMI size for store and restore
- price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy for Spot Instances
- Cancel having an AMI shared with your account
- Transfer Elastic IP addresses
- Replace root volume
- Automatically connect instance to database
- AMI quotas
- Configure AMI for IMDSv2
- Initiate Spot Instance interruption
- Verified AMI provider
- Placement groups on AWS Outposts
- io2 Block Express volumes
- Dedicated Hosts on AWS Outposts
- Instance stop protection
- UEFI Secure Boot
- NitroTPM
- AMI state change events
- Describe public keys
- Create key pairs
- Mount Amazon FSx file systems at launch
- New launch instance wizard
- Automatically deprecate public AMIs
- AMI last launched time
- Additional RHEL platforms for Capacity Reservations
- Configure Windows AMIs for faster launching
- Instance tags in instance metadata
- Capacity Reservations in cluster placement groups
- EC2 Fleet launch-before-terminate
- Compare timestamps
- Share AMIs with organizations and OUs
- Spot placement score
- Attribute-based instance type selection for EC2 Fleet
- On-Demand Capacity Reservation Fleet
- EC2 Fleet and targeted On-Demand Capacity Reservations
- T3 instances on Dedicated Hosts
- Hibernation support for RHEL, Fedora, and CentOS
- Amazon EC2 Global View
- AMI deprecation support for Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager
- Amazon EC2 key pairs
- Prefixes for network interfaces
- Event windows
- Deprecate an AMI
- Capacity Reservations on AWS Outposts
- Root volume replacement
- Store and restore an AMI using S3
- EC2 Serial Console
- Boot modes
- Create a reverse DNS record
- Tag AMIs and snapshots on AMI creation
- Use Amazon EventBridge to monitor Spot Fleet events
- Use Amazon EventBridge to monitor EC2 Fleet events
- Delete instant fleets
- Amazon EFS Quick Create
- EC2 instance rebalance recommendation
- Capacity Reservations in Wavelength Zones
- Capacity Rebalancing
- Spot Instance vCPU limits
- Capacity Reservations in Local Zones
- Instance metadata provides instance location and placement information
- Capacity Reservation groups
- EC2Launch v2
- Bring your own IPv6 addresses
- Launch instances using a Systems Manager parameter
- Customize scheduled event notifications
- Amazon Linux 2 Kernel Live Patching
- Windows Server on Dedicated Hosts
- Stop and start a Spot Instance
- Connect to your instance using Session Manager
- Dedicated Hosts and host resource groups
- Dedicated Host sharing
- Default credit specification at the account level
- Instance type discovery
- Instance Metadata Service Version 2
- Hibernation support for On-Demand Windows instances
- Queued purchases of Reserved Instances
- Diagnostic interrupt
- Capacity optimized allocation strategy
- On-Demand Capacity Reservation sharing
- Elastic Fabric Adapter
- EC2 Instance Connect
- Host recovery
- VSS application-consistent snapshots
- Windows to Linux Replatforming Assistant for Microsoft SQL Server Databases
- Windows Automated Upgrade
- Elastic Fabric Adapter