☁️ AWS Daily Digest · June 12, 2026
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1. Now available: Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by new AWS Graviton5 processors
Compute · AWS Blog
Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are now available, offering improved compute performance, price-performance, and energy efficiency. This benefits customers running a wide range of workloads, with reported performance boosts of up to 36% and query duration drops of up to 60%. The M9g instances are generally available in multiple regions.
2. Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris) Region
Compute · AWS What's New
Amazon EC2 I7i instances are now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region, delivering up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance over previous generation I4i instances. This benefits customers requiring high-performance storage-optimized instances, such as those running databases and data analytics workloads. The I7i instances are powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors.
3. Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-8TB instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region
Compute · AWS What's New
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-8TB instances are now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region, offering 8 TiB of DDR5 memory and up to 45% better price performance over existing U-1 instances. This benefits customers running mission-critical applications requiring large amounts of memory, such as in-memory databases and real-time analytics. The U7i-8TB instances support up to 100 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth.
4. Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Compute · AWS What's New
Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, enabling government and regulated-industry customers to reserve GPU capacity for machine learning workloads. This benefits customers requiring assured access to accelerated compute for short-duration pre-training, fine-tuning, and inference demand surges. Capacity Blocks can be reserved up to eight weeks in advance for durations up to 6 months.
5. Optimize EC2 costs with AWS Compute Optimizer right sizing
FinOps · AWS Compute Blog
AWS Compute Optimizer now offers right sizing recommendations for Amazon EC2 instances, helping customers optimize costs by matching instance types and sizes to actual resource demands. This benefits customers seeking to reduce costs while maintaining performance and capacity requirements. The optimizer analyzes resource configuration and utilization metrics to provide personalized recommendations.
6. SageMaker AI now supports serverless fine-tuning for NVIDIA Nemotron models
AI/ML · AWS What's New
SageMaker AI now supports serverless fine-tuning for NVIDIA Nemotron models, enabling customers to customize models using supervised and reinforcement fine-tuning. This benefits customers seeking to adapt foundation models to their specific domains and workflows, improving accuracy and performance. Serverless customization handles all infrastructure provisioning and training orchestration.
7. Improve your application resilience with Amazon Cognito multi-Region replication
Security · AWS Blog
Amazon Cognito now offers multi-Region replication, improving application resilience by maintaining consistent user authentication in the event of a regional service interruption. This benefits developers building high-availability applications, particularly those using microservices, automation, and service accounts. The update also includes support for customer-managed keys for encryption control.
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