Instance tags in instance metadata
You can access an instance's tags from the instance metadata.
Capacity Reservations in cluster placement groups
You can create Capacity Reservations in cluster placement groups.
EC2 Fleet launch-before-terminate
EC2 Fleet can terminate the Spot Instances that receive a rebalance notification after new replacement Spot Instances are launched.
Compare timestamps
You can determine the true time of an event by comparing the timestamp of your Amazon EC2 Linux instance with ClockBound.
Share AMIs with organizations and OUs
You can now share AMIs with the following AWS resources: organizations and organizational units (OUs).
Spot placement score
Get a recommendation for an AWS Region or Availability Zone based on your Spot capacity requirements.
Attribute-based instance type selection for EC2 Fleet
Specify the attributes that an instance must have, and Amazon EC2 will identify all the instance types with those attributes.
On-Demand Capacity Reservation Fleet
You can use a Capacity Reservation Fleet to launch a group, or fleet, of Capacity Reservations.
EC2 Fleet and targeted On-Demand Capacity Reservations
EC2 Fleet can launch On-Demand Instances into targeted Capacity Reservations.
T3 instances on Dedicated Hosts
Support for T3 instances on Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host.
Hibernation support for RHEL, Fedora, and CentOS
Hibernate your newly-launched instances that were launched from RHEL, Fedora, and CentOS AMIs.
Amazon EC2 Global View
Amazon EC2 Global View enables you to view VPCs, subnets, instances, security groups, and volumes across multiple AWS Regions in a single console.
AMI deprecation support for Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager
Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager EBS-backed AMI policies can deprecate AMIs. The AWSDataLifecycleManagerServiceRoleForAMIManagement AWS managed policy...
Amazon EC2 key pairs
Amazon EC2 now supports ED25519 keys on Linux and Mac instances.
Prefixes for network interfaces
You can assign a private IPv4 or IPv6 CIDR range, either automatically or manually, to your network interfaces.
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- ENA Express
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- AMI size for store and restore
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- Cancel having an AMI shared with your account
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- Replace root volume
- Automatically connect instance to database
- AMI quotas
- Configure AMI for IMDSv2
- Initiate Spot Instance interruption
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- Placement groups on AWS Outposts
- io2 Block Express volumes
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- UEFI Secure Boot
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- 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
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- Event windows
- Deprecate an AMI
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- Boot modes
- Create a reverse DNS record
- Tag AMIs and snapshots on AMI creation
- Use Amazon EventBridge to monitor Spot Fleet events
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- 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
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- Host recovery
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