Document history
The following table describes important additions to the Amazon EC2 User Guide starting in 2019. The guide is also updated frequently to address the feedback that you send us.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
AWS Nitro Sandboxes | Added documentation for AWS Nitro Sandboxes, lightweight virtual machines
that isolate workloads sharing an Amazon EC2 instance, including how they expose
block devices as | November 9, 2026 |
Sunset of Amazon S3-backed AMIs | Starting November 2, 2026, if your AWS account doesn't already own an Amazon S3-backed AMI in an AWS Region, you can no longer create a new one in that Region. For more information, see Create an Amazon S3-backed AMI. | November 2, 2026 |
Amazon EC2 Instance Connect OS support | Added information about setting up EC2 Instance Connect on CentOS Stream 10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10. For more information, see Connect to your Linux instance using a public IP address and EC2 Instance Connect. | October 30, 2026 |
Capacity Manager supportability checks | Updated documentation for Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager real-time supportability
checks, fulfillment metrics, and capacity check quotas, including the
| October 28, 2026 |
Scan AMIs with Amazon Inspector | Added documentation for scanning Amazon EC2 AMIs for software vulnerabilities with
Amazon Inspector and adding a | October 23, 2026 |
EFA installer 1.51.0 release | Updated documentation for the EFA installer version 1.51.0, which adds Debian 13 support and ends support for Debian 11. For more information, see Elastic Fabric Adapter for AI/ML and HPC workloads on Amazon EC2. | October 23, 2026 |
Allowed AMIs image criteria | Updated documentation for the Allowed AMIs | October 23, 2026 |
New ImdsV1Enabled CloudWatch metric | Amazon EC2 now publishes the | October 22, 2026 |
GRID driver version requirements for G instances | G6f and Gr6f instances no longer have a maximum GRID version, and G7 instances
are now included. The minimum GRID versions follow the driver branches that
NVIDIA currently releases. For more information about those releases, see NVIDIA Virtual GPU (vGPU)
Software | October 20, 2026 |
EFA accelerator and RDMA support | Added information about GPUDirect Async (GDA) support for Accelerator Command Initiation (ACI) on select NVIDIA GPU instances, Neuron Direct RDMA on Trainium instances, EFA NCCL support on Debian 13, and the accelerator support tables. For more information, see Elastic Fabric Adapter for AI/ML and HPC workloads on Amazon EC2. | October 20, 2026 |
Spot placement score instance type exemptions | Updated documentation for the Spot placement score instance type minimum, which doesn't apply to the P, G, Trn, and Inf families. For more information, see Spot placement score. | October 16, 2026 |
Precision clock instance families | Updated documentation for the Amazon EC2 instance families that support the precision hardware clock (PHC). For more information, see Precision clock and time synchronization on your EC2 instance. | October 15, 2026 |
Port 25 restriction exceptions | Updated documentation for the port 25 restriction exceptions, grouped by IPv4 and IPv6 address ranges. For more information, see Amazon EC2 service quotas. | October 12, 2026 |
Reserved Instances overview update | Updated documentation for the Reserved Instances overview to remove an outdated Reserved Instance Marketplace portal link. For more information, see Reserved Instances for Amazon EC2 overview. | October 8, 2026 |
AMI allowed instance types | Added documentation for specifying which instance types an AMI supports
through the | October 8, 2026 |
Filter instance types by attribute | Updated documentation for filtering Amazon EC2 instance types by attribute, availability, and feature support using the console or the AWS CLI. For more information, see Find an Amazon EC2 instance type. | October 6, 2026 |
Shared tags for AMIs | Added documentation for sharing tags on AMIs with other AWS accounts by
using the | October 1, 2026 |
Postpone Capacity Reservation start date | Added information about postponing and delaying the start date of a
future-dated Capacity Reservation in the | September 24, 2026 |
27.0 Mac AMI release | Added information about the Amazon EC2 Mac AMI release for the 27.0 set, including macOS Tahoe 26.7 and Safari 27.0 updates. For more information, see Amazon EC2 Mac instances. | September 23, 2026 |
T8i burstable performance instances | Added information about the | September 17, 2026 |
Troubleshoot Windows with SAC | Added documentation for troubleshooting a Windows Amazon EC2 instance using the Special Administration Console (SAC) through the EC2 Serial Console. For more information, see Troubleshoot your Windows instance using SAC. | September 15, 2026 |
AL2023 support for NIXL | Added information about using Amazon Linux 2023 as a base AMI in the EFA and NIXL inference setup. For more information, see Get started with EFA and NIXL for inference workloads on Amazon EC2. | September 15, 2026 |
EFA GPUDirect, NCCL, and metrics | Added information about GPUDirect RDMA (GDR) and GPUDirect Async (GDA) support on select Nitro v4 and later instances, collecting EFA driver metrics with the CloudWatch agent, using NCCL with EFA, and the EFA installer version 1.50.0 release. For more information, see Elastic Fabric Adapter for AI/ML and HPC workloads on Amazon EC2. | September 11, 2026 |
Boot mode AWS CLI query examples | Updated documentation for the boot mode AWS CLI examples to quote the
| September 10, 2026 |
Managed instance visibility and EventBridge | Added information about how managed resource visibility affects the | September 9, 2026 |
Nested virtualization instance types | Updated documentation for the Amazon EC2 instance types that support nested virtualization. For more information, see Use nested virtualization to run hypervisors in Amazon EC2 instances. | September 4, 2026 |
Hibernation encryption prerequisite clarification | Updated documentation for the hibernation root volume encryption prerequisite, which Amazon EC2 validates only when you start hibernation through the console, AWS CLI, or API. For more information, see Hibernate your Amazon EC2 instance. | September 3, 2026 |
Interruptible reservation zero size preference | Added information about the zero size preference and its | September 2, 2026 |
CreateImage boot mode override | Added information about the | September 2, 2026 |
26.6.2 Mac AMI release | Added information about the Amazon EC2 Mac AMI release for the 26.6.2 set, including macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 and Sonoma 14.8.9 updates. For more information, see Amazon EC2 Mac instances. | September 2, 2026 |
Link-local address routing | Updated documentation for how Amazon EC2 routes traffic to reserved IPv4 link-local
addresses such as | September 1, 2026 |
AWS PV driver requirements | Added information about the system requirements for installing the AWS PV driver package, including the minimum .NET Framework version. For more information, see Paravirtual drivers for Windows instances. | August 28, 2026 |
Amazon EC2 Mac AMI release notes | Added information about the 26.6.1 Mac AMI release, which updates the macOS and Safari versions. For more information, see Amazon EC2 Mac instances. | August 26, 2026 |
Capacity Reservation Resource Groups | Added documentation for creating Capacity Reservation Resource Groups with Resource Groups to target instances to a collection of reservations in the same AWS Region. For more information, see Capacity Reservation Resource Groups. | August 25, 2026 |
Capacity Reservation Resource Group for fleets | Added information about launching EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet instances across
multiple Capacity Reservation types by using a single Capacity Reservation
Resource Group with the | August 25, 2026 |
Managed instances and status checks | Updated documentation for Amazon EC2 managed instances and application status checks, including how managed network interfaces are created for each subnet and security group combination. For more information, see Amazon EC2 managed instances and Monitor the status of your Amazon EC2 instances. | August 20, 2026 |
Security best practices reference | Updated documentation for infrastructure security with a current AWS security best practices reference. For more information, see Infrastructure security in Amazon EC2. | August 19, 2026 |
Application status check console steps | Added information about creating an application status check by using the Amazon EC2 console. For more information, see Monitor the status of your Amazon EC2 instances. | August 18, 2026 |
Hardware packet timestamping support | Added information about hardware packet timestamping and PTP Hardware Clock (PHC) access for supported Amazon EC2 instances launched in a precision time placement group. For more information, see Precision clock and time synchronization on your EC2 instance. | August 15, 2026 |
Elastic IP address pricing update | Updated documentation for changing an instance type with current Elastic IP address guidance. For more information, see Amazon EC2 instance type changes. | August 15, 2026 |
EC2 Instance Connect proxy endpoints | Added information about the partition-specific proxy endpoints for EC2 Instance Connect and the Amazon EC2 Serial Console, the prerequisite to allow outbound traffic to the proxy endpoint, and EC2 Instance Connect Region availability. For more information, see Connect to your Linux instance using a public IP address and EC2 Instance Connect. | August 15, 2026 |
BYOIP AWS European Sovereign Cloud ASNs | Updated documentation for Amazon EC2 BYOIP to require ASNs | August 15, 2026 |
Permissions checks for EC2 Fast Launch | Added guidance on how Amazon EC2 validates your permissions when you enable EC2
Fast Launch with a launch template, including a security consideration for using
the | August 14, 2026 |
Amazon EC2 Mac AMI release notes | Added information about the 26.6 Mac AMI release, which updates the macOS and Safari versions. For more information, see Amazon EC2 Mac instances. | August 14, 2026 |
AMI documentation updates | Updated documentation for several AMI topics, including AWS CLI examples for Allowed AMIs and AMI ancestry. For more information, see Control the discovery and use of AMIs in Amazon EC2 with Allowed AMIs, Use AMI ancestry to trace the origin of an AMI, Instance launch behavior with Amazon EC2 boot modes, Create an Amazon S3-backed AMI, Create an Amazon EC2 AMI using Windows Sysprep, and Deregister an Amazon EC2 AMI. | August 14, 2026 |
Modify EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint using console | Added information about modifying an EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint by using the console. For more information, see Connect to your instances using a private IP address and EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint. | August 13, 2026 |
Ubuntu G4ad driver download | Updated documentation for installing the AMD driver on Ubuntu
| August 12, 2026 |
Map view for Regions and Zones | The Regions and Zones page in AWS Global View now includes a Map view that displays all your Regions and Zones on an interactive world map. You can toggle between List view and Map view. Your view preference persists across sessions. | August 12, 2026 |
EFA container install and drivers | Added information about installing the EFA software in a containerized environment, the EFA installer version 1.49.0 release, the driver 3.1.0 changelog, and NVMe driver updates on Amazon EC2 instances. For more information, see Elastic Fabric Adapter for AI/ML and HPC workloads on Amazon EC2 and NVMe drivers. | August 11, 2026 |
Managed instances offerings and visibility | Added information about the AWS services that offer managed instances and the settings that control managed resource visibility. For more information, see Amazon EC2 managed instances. | August 7, 2026 |
Local Zones for Spot placement score | Added information about including Local Zones in a Spot placement score by
setting | August 7, 2026 |
EC2Launch v2 2.5.2 release notes | Added information about the EC2Launch v2 version 2.5.2 release. For more information, see EC2Launch v2 version histories. | August 6, 2026 |
G7 NVIDIA public driver | Added information about NVIDIA public driver support for | August 5, 2026 |
Application status checks | Added documentation for application status checks, which monitor the HTTP and HTTPS responses of applications on your instances and integrate with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, including the service quotas and creating a Amazon CloudWatch alarm on quota usage. For more information, see Monitor the status of your Amazon EC2 instances. | August 5, 2026 |
Configurable ENA queue allocation | Added information about configurable ENA queue allocation, which lets you
choose how many queues each network interface gets, including modifying,
attaching, and launching instances with the
| August 3, 2026 |
G4ad AMD driver installation | Updated documentation for installing the AMD driver on | July 31, 2026 |
Host resource group licenses | Updated documentation for Dedicated Host resource groups to note that license configurations are now optional. For more information, see Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts. | July 24, 2026 |
AWS PV driver 8.6.1 | Added information about the AWS PV driver package version 8.6.1 release. For more information, see Paravirtual drivers for Windows instances. | July 23, 2026 |
Replace current root volume with an existing EBS volume | You can replace the current root volume of an Amazon EC2 instance with an existing Amazon EBS volume that you have already configured. | July 9, 2026 |
Optimize CPUs on Dedicated Instances | Updated documentation for CPU options to note that Optimize CPUs for License-Included instances is not supported on Dedicated Instances. For more information, see CPU options for Amazon EC2 instances. | July 9, 2026 |
Launch template overrides for instant EC2 Fleet | EC2 Fleets of type | July 9, 2026 |
Gaming driver certificate URLs | Updated documentation for the NVIDIA gaming driver with certificate URLs for additional driver versions. For more information, see Install NVIDIA gaming drivers. | July 7, 2026 |
Find the SSM parameter for a public AMI | You can find the AWS Systems Manager parameter associated with a public AMI and use it to automatically reference the latest version of that AMI. | July 7, 2026 |
SEV-SNP on Dedicated Hosts | AMD SEV-SNP is now supported on Dedicated Hosts, enabling you to run your confidential computing workloads on physical servers fully dedicated to your use. For more information, see AMD SEV-SNP for Amazon EC2 instances. | July 1, 2026 |
Capacity Reservations in placement groups | Added information about creating Capacity Reservations in placement groups that use the Cluster or Precision Time strategy. For more information, see Reserve compute capacity with EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations. | June 30, 2026 |
AWS Global View | EC2 Global View is now renamed AWS Global View. You can use it to view your Amazon EC2 resources and other supported AWS resources across all Regions in a single view. | June 30, 2026 |
Precision-time placement group | You can use a precision-time placement group to place instances on hardware with direct access to high-precision time sources in the AWS infrastructure. For more information, see Placement groups for your Amazon EC2 instances. | June 29, 2026 |
Use watermarks with Allowed AMIs | You can now use AMI watermarks with Allowed AMIs to restrict
instance launches to only AMIs with specified watermark filters. The new Allowed
AMIs parameter is | June 22, 2026 |
Amazon EC2 topology Region availability | Added information about | June 18, 2026 |
Capacity Reservation cancellation | Added documentation for canceling a Capacity Reservation, including cancellation states, charges, and the minimum commitment durations for U and X instances. For more information, see Reserve compute capacity with EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations. | June 17, 2026 |
AWS VMClock device for Windows | AWS provides a null (no-function) driver package for Windows that allows the operating system to recognize the device. | June 17, 2026 |
Other Windows device drivers | Added documentation for additional AWS device drivers for Amazon EC2 Windows instances, including the null driver package for the AWS VMClock device on Nitro-based instances. For more information, see Other Windows device drivers. | June 16, 2026 |
Path MTU Discovery conditions | Added information about the connection tracking conditions, including untracked connections, under which your instance can receive Path MTU Discovery (PMTUD) responses. For more information, see Network maximum transmission unit (MTU) for your EC2 instance. | June 15, 2026 |
NVMe driver version 1.8.2 | Added information about the AWS NVMe Windows driver version 1.8.2, which fixes a bug check on startup by improving interrupt handling. For more information, see NVMe drivers. | June 15, 2026 |
Manage system users on Linux | Updated documentation for managing system users on your Amazon EC2 Linux instance. For more information, see Manage system users on your Amazon EC2 Linux instance. | June 13, 2026 |
Elastic Fabric Adapter version labels | Added information about the Elastic Fabric Adapter version that corresponds to each Nitro System version, with updated networking guidance for AI/ML and HPC workloads on Amazon EC2. For more information, see Elastic Fabric Adapter for AI/ML and HPC workloads on Amazon EC2. | June 11, 2026 |
AMI watermarks | You can use AMI watermarks to track provenance and enforce governance policies for your private AMIs. Watermarks persist when you create AMIs from instances, copy AMIs, or share AMIs with other accounts. | June 10, 2026 |
EC2Launch v2 version 2.5.1 | Added information about EC2Launch v2 version 2.5.1, which improves error detection when enabling hibernation. For more information, see EC2Launch v2 version histories. | June 4, 2026 |
Capacity Block extension maximum | Updated documentation for the maximum Capacity Block extension, which you can extend up to a maximum of 57 days before it expires. For more information, see Capacity Blocks for ML. | June 2, 2026 |
Cancel a Capacity Reservation | You can cancel a future-dated Capacity Reservation. Depending on when you cancel, a charge may apply. | June 2, 2026 |
Serial Console bare metal support | Added information about Amazon EC2 Serial Console prerequisites and the supported bare metal instances for Windows instances. For more information, see EC2 Serial Console for instances. | May 29, 2026 |
Mac AMI release notes | Added information about the Amazon EC2 Mac AMI release that adds macOS Tahoe 26.5, Sonoma 14.8.7, and Sequoia 15.7.7. For more information, see Amazon EC2 Mac instances. | May 19, 2026 |
GRID drivers for G6f instances | Added information about the GRID driver version range for | May 18, 2026 |
Managed resource visibility | Added information about configuring managed resource visibility in the Amazon EC2 console using the Hidden and Visible options, including the affected resource types and the default visibility behavior. For more information, see Amazon EC2 managed instances. | May 15, 2026 |
GRID drivers for G7e instances | Added information about the GRID driver requirement for | May 12, 2026 |
ENA Express cross-AZ support | ENA Express now supports traffic between Amazon EC2 instances in different Availability Zones within the same Region. For more information, see Improve network performance between EC2 instances with ENA Express. | May 11, 2026 |
P1 and F2 instance EOL | Updated documentation for Amazon EC2 instance types to reflect the end of life of P1 and F2 instances. For more information, see Performance acceleration with GPU instances, Amazon EC2 instance types, and Enhanced networking on Amazon EC2 instances. | May 8, 2026 |
ENA Express Linux tuning script | Added information about the ENA Express settings check script, which validates the required network settings on a Linux instance and outputs the commands to fix any issues it finds. For more information, see Improve network performance between EC2 instances with ENA Express. | May 6, 2026 |
EC2Launch v2 version 2.5.0 | Added information about EC2Launch v2 version 2.5.0, which adds the EC2 Windows Utility Device driver version to instance console output. For more information, see Use the EC2Launch v2 agent to perform tasks during EC2 Windows instance launch, Troubleshoot issues with the EC2Launch v2 agent, and EC2Launch v2 version histories. | May 5, 2026 |
Managed resource visibility defaults | Updated documentation for the default visibility of new and existing managed resources in your account. For more information, see Amazon EC2 managed instances. | May 4, 2026 |
Multi-flow traffic bandwidth limits | Added information about the available bandwidth for multi-flow traffic through an internet gateway or local gateway, which depends on the instance type. For more information, see Amazon EC2 instance network bandwidth. | May 1, 2026 |
BYOIP IPv6 in Local Zone | Added information about bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP) support for IPv6
in the | April 27, 2026 |
Managed resource types update | Updated documentation for the resource types affected by managed resource visibility to include Amazon EC2 launch templates. For more information, see Amazon EC2 managed instances. | April 23, 2026 |
Spot Fleet legacy guidance | Updated documentation for Spot Fleet to recommend EC2 Fleet or an Auto Scaling group instead, because Spot Fleet is a legacy feature with no planned investment. For more information, see Specify attributes for instance type selection for EC2 Fleet or Spot Fleet and Work with Spot Fleet. | April 22, 2026 |
Managed resource visibility | You can control whether resources that AWS services provision on your behalf appear in your Amazon EC2 console views and API list operations. | April 22, 2026 |
Requester-managed network interfaces | Updated documentation for the actions you can and cannot perform on a requester-managed network interface, clarifying that you can reset but not modify its attributes. For more information, see Elastic network interfaces. | April 21, 2026 |
Amazon EC2 launch templates | Updated documentation for storing instance launch parameters in Amazon EC2 launch templates. For more information, see Store instance launch parameters in Amazon EC2 launch templates. | April 21, 2026 |
NVIDIA public driver installation | Added information about installing NVIDIA public drivers on
| April 18, 2026 |
Shared Capacity Reservation Availability Zones | Added information about how a shared Capacity Reservation maps to an Availability Zone by its AZ ID in the consumer account. For more information, see Reserve compute capacity with EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations. | April 16, 2026 |
STIG compliance updates | Updated documentation for applying STIG compliance standards to Amazon EC2
instances, including the | April 16, 2026 |
R8i instance store examples | Updated documentation for instance store volume examples using
| April 16, 2026 |
PCR12 attestation measurement | Added information about using the | April 16, 2026 |
Nested virtualization launch example | Updated documentation for the nested virtualization launch examples for Amazon EC2 instances. For more information, see Use nested virtualization to run hypervisors in Amazon EC2 instances. | April 16, 2026 |
Interruptible Capacity Reservations | Added documentation for Interruptible Capacity Reservations, which let you make unused reserved capacity temporarily available for other workloads while retaining control to reclaim it, including EventBridge interruption events and sharing within your AWS organization using AWS Resource Access Manager. For more information, see Interruptible Capacity Reservations. | April 16, 2026 |
Instance metadata policy reference | Updated documentation for the instance metadata example policy reference in the AWS Organizations User Guide. For more information, see Access instance metadata for an EC2 instance. | April 16, 2026 |
Instance identity document certificates | Added information about the instance identity document certificate for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud for Amazon EC2 instances. For more information, see Instance identity documents for Amazon EC2 instances. | April 16, 2026 |
IMDSv2 enforcement troubleshooting | Added information about troubleshooting failures when you modify an
IMDSv1-enabled instance while | April 16, 2026 |
Gaming driver certificates 590.48 | Updated documentation for the NVIDIA gaming driver certificate instructions for version 590.48 and later. For more information, see Install NVIDIA gaming drivers (G7, G7e, G6, G6e, G5, and G4dn instances). | April 16, 2026 |
EFA installer 1.48.0 release | Updated documentation for the EFA installer release 1.48.0, which adds support
for | April 16, 2026 |
EC2Launch v1 agent release notes | Added information about EC2Launch v1 releases, including version 1.4.299 and version 1.4.183, which updated installer logic to prevent unsupported installation on Windows Server 2022. For more information, see Use the EC2Launch v1 agent to perform tasks during EC2 Windows instance launch. | April 16, 2026 |
EC2 Instance Connect Region availability | Updated documentation for EC2 Instance Connect Region availability, which is now available in all AWS Regions. For more information, see Connect to your Linux instance using a public IP address and EC2 Instance Connect. | April 16, 2026 |
Create IAM role at launch | Added information about creating and attaching an IAM role during Amazon EC2 instance launch using the inline role creation form. For more information, see Identity and access management for Amazon EC2. | April 16, 2026 |
Copy AMI IAM permissions | Added information about the | April 16, 2026 |
Connection tracking best practices | Added information about connection tracking best practices for Amazon EC2 security groups, including configuring TCP keep alives for long-lived connections. For more information, see Amazon EC2 security groups for your EC2 instances. | April 16, 2026 |
Amazon EC2 Mac AMI release notes | Added information about Amazon EC2 Mac AMI releases that add macOS Tahoe, Sonoma, and Sequoia versions, including the 2026.03.03 release. For more information, see Amazon EC2 Mac instances. | April 16, 2026 |
AWS NVMe driver releases | Added information about the | April 16, 2026 |
Windows kernel network debugging | Added documentation for kernel debugging of Amazon EC2 Windows instances over the network using the KDNET Extensibility Module for ENA with the Windows Debugger (WinDbg). For more information, see Kernel debugging for Windows instances over the network. | April 15, 2026 |
Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager tags | Added information about tag-based grouping and filtering in Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager, which lets you activate Amazon EC2 resource tag keys as custom dimensions for your capacity metrics. For more information, see EC2 Capacity Manager. | April 8, 2026 |
Amazon S3 Files support | Added information about Amazon S3 Files, which lets you mount an Amazon S3 general purpose bucket as a high-performance file system on your Amazon EC2 instance. For more information, see Use Amazon S3 with Amazon EC2 instances. | April 7, 2026 |
Capacity Manager metrics and PowerShell | Added information about Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager reservation metrics such as
| April 2, 2026 |
EC2 Fleet and Auto Scaling references | Added information about launching instances with EC2 Fleet and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for large-scale or automated deployments. For more information, see Launch an Amazon EC2 instance. | March 31, 2026 |
Disable TCP autocorking for latency | Added information about disabling the | March 24, 2026 |
EFA and NIXL inference setup | Added documentation for getting started with EFA and NIXL for disaggregated
inference workloads on Amazon EC2, including KV-cache transfer, the NIXL Benchmark
( | March 19, 2026 |
Secondary Networks | Added documentation for Secondary Networks, which provide high-performance GPU-to-GPU connectivity using RDMA for machine learning workloads, including east-west connectivity and hardware-enabled encryption. For more information, see Secondary Networks. | March 17, 2026 |
Get started with EFA and NIXL | You can use Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) with NIXL for disaggregated inference workloads. | March 17, 2026 |
Tutorial: Launch an EC2 Fleet with Interruptible Capacity Reservations | A new tutorial shows how to create an EC2 Fleet that uses Interruptible Capacity Reservations to make unused reserved capacity available for your interruptible workloads. | March 16, 2026 |
EC2Launch v2 version 2.4.0 | Updated documentation for EC2Launch v2 with the release of version 2.4.0, which adds log rotation and reduces time to Windows is Ready. For more information, see Use the EC2Launch v2 agent to perform tasks during EC2 Windows instance launch and EC2Launch v2 version histories. | March 10, 2026 |
EC2WinUtil 3.1.0 release notes | Added information about the | March 4, 2026 |
Capacity Blocks for ML related resources | Added information about using Capacity Blocks with AWS Parallel Computing Service and AWS ParallelCluster to enhance ML workflows. For more information, see Capacity Blocks for ML. | February 27, 2026 |
EC2Launch v2 version 2.3.237 | Updated documentation for EC2Launch v2 with the release of version 2.3.237, which fixes an agent crash issue. For more information, see EC2Launch v2 version histories. | February 26, 2026 |
Capacity Blocks in Local Zones | Capacity Blocks for ML are now available in Local Zones. | February 25, 2026 |
Account-level IMDSv2 enforcement | Added information about account-level IMDSv2 enforcement using
| February 25, 2026 |
IMDSv2 enforcement | You can enforce the use of IMDSv2 at the account level for each AWS Region. When enforced, instances can only launch if they're configured to require IMDSv2. | February 24, 2026 |
AWS Marketplace AMI subscription updates | Updated documentation for subscribing to and launching an Amazon EC2 instance from an AWS Marketplace AMI using the new procurement experience. For more information, see Launch an Amazon EC2 instance from an AWS Marketplace AMI. | February 20, 2026 |
WSL 2 nested virtualization support | Added information about installing WSL 2 on Amazon EC2 Windows instances that
support nested virtualization with the | February 18, 2026 |
Nested virtualization | You can run hypervisors, such as Hyper-V and KVM, inside virtualized Amazon EC2 instances. | February 16, 2026 |
Allowed AMIs | Added information about Lambda Managed Instances in the Allowed AMIs guidance for Amazon EC2. For more information, see Control the discovery and use of AMIs in Amazon EC2 with Allowed AMIs. | February 10, 2026 |
Secondary Networks | Secondary Networks are virtual networks purpose-built for specialized networking use cases. You can launch select EC2 instances into both a VPC and a Secondary Network. | February 9, 2026 |
Share Capacity Blocks using console | Added information about sharing a Capacity Block using the Amazon EC2 console. For more information, see Capacity Blocks for ML. | February 5, 2026 |
Capacity Blocks sharing | You can share EC2 Capacity Blocks with other AWS accounts in your AWS organization. | February 2, 2026 |
G7e NVIDIA GRID driver support | Added information about NVIDIA GRID driver requirements for G7e Amazon EC2 instances in the G instance family. For more information, see Install NVIDIA GRID drivers (G instance family). | January 21, 2026 |
EC2Launch v2 2.3.56 version history | Added information about EC2Launch v2 version 2.3.56, which fixed handling of preconfigured persistent network routes. For more information, see EC2Launch v2 version histories. | January 9, 2026 |
p6-b300 Capacity Blocks support | Added information about using Capacity Blocks to reserve | December 17, 2025 |
C8a and X8aedz support | Added information about processor state control support for | December 2, 2025 |
Interruptible Capacity Reservations | Interruptible Capacity Reservations help you make unused capacity temporarily available for other workloads within your account. | November 21, 2025 |
Instance topology for P6-B300 instances | You can get the instance topology information for
| November 18, 2025 |
AMI ancestry | You can now trace the origin of an AMI by getting a list of all its ancestor AMIs. | November 12, 2025 |
Capacity Reservation Topology | You can use the DescribeCapacityReservationTopology API to describe where your reserved capacity will be located relative to each other in the network hierarchy before you launch instances. | October 28, 2025 |
Optimize CPUs for license savings | You can now configure active CPUs to save on licensing costs for license-included Windows and SQL Server instances. | October 15, 2025 |
New EC2 Capacity Manager | Amazon EC2 added EC2 Capacity Manager that allows you to monitor, analyze, and manage your capacity usage across On-Demand Instances, Spot Instances, and Capacity Reservations from a single location. | October 15, 2025 |
AWSEC2CapacityManagerServiceRolePolicy – new managed policy | Amazon EC2 added the AWSEC2CapacityManagerServiceRolePolicy managed policy to allow you to manage capacity resources and integrate with AWS Organizations on your behalf. | October 15, 2025 |
GPUPowerUtilization metric | New | October 13, 2025 |
EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint IPv6 support | EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint now supports IPv6 connectivity. You can now configure EC2 Instance Connect Endpoints to support dual-stack or IPv6 only to connect to instances with IPv6 addresses. | October 2, 2025 |
Allowed AMIs - new parameters | Allowed AMIs, a feature that enables you to limit the discovery and use of AMIs within your AWS account, now supports four new parameters: AWS Marketplace product codes, AMI names, maximum period since AMI deprecation, and maximum age for AMIs. | September 25, 2025 |
Detailed performance statistics for instance store volumes | Amazon EC2 provides real-time, high-resolution performance statistics for NVMe instance store volumes attached to Nitro-based instances. | September 16, 2025 |
Amazon EC2 Mac Dedicated Host updates | Amazon EC2 Mac Dedicated Hosts support Dedicated Host auto recovery and reboot-based host maintenance. | August 28, 2025 |
AMI copies for Local Zones | You can now copy Amazon EBS-backed AMIs to and from Local Zones. | August 28, 2025 |
AmazonEC2ImageReferencesAccessPolicy – new managed policy | Amazon EC2 added the AmazonEC2ImageReferencesAccessPolicy managed policy to provide permission to scan all resources types supported by the EC2 DescribeImageReferences API. | August 26, 2025 |
AMI usage reports | If you share your Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with other AWS accounts—whether with specific AWS accounts, organizations, organizational units (OUs), or publicly—you can see how these AMIs are used by creating AMI usage reports. The reports provide visibility into which AWS accounts are using your AMIs in EC2 instances or launch templates, and how many instances or launch templates are referencing each AMI. | August 26, 2025 |
AMI references | You can identify your AWS resources that reference specified Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), regardless of whether the AMIs are public or private, or who owns them. This visibility helps you ensure your resources use the latest compliant AMIs. | August 26, 2025 |
Modify EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint | You can now modify an existing EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint using the AWS CLI or an SDK. | August 14, 2025 |
Capacity Reservation sharing enhancements | You can now share Capacity Reservations that you create in cluster placement groups. | August 12, 2025 |
Updated managed policy for EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint | To support the modification of existing EC2 Instance Connect Endpoints, Amazon EC2 updated the
| July 31, 2025 |
Instance topology - additional Region support | The DescribeInstanceTopology API is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne). | July 31, 2025 |
Force terminate | You can now force terminate your instance. | July 31, 2025 |
Instance topology - additional Region support | The DescribeInstanceTopology API is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West). | July 24, 2025 |
Skip OS shutdown during instance termination | You can skip the graceful operating system (OS) shutdown when terminating an instance. | July 23, 2025 |
Skip OS shutdown during instance stop | You can skip the graceful operating system (OS) shutdown when stopping an instance. | July 23, 2025 |
P6-B200 Capacity Blocks in us-east-1 | P6-B200 Capacity Blocks are now available in US East (N. Virginia) -
| July 23, 2025 |
Updated managed policy for the EC2 Fast Launch service linked role | To help prevent orphaned resources, Amazon EC2 updated this policy to add permission to describe volumes, volume attributes and network interfaces, and to delete volumes and network interfaces that EC2 Fast Launch created. | July 17, 2025 |
EC2 Serial Console - additional Region support | EC2 Serial Console is now also available in Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central). | July 15, 2025 |
EC2 Instance Connect - additional Region support | EC2 Instance Connect is now also available in Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central). | July 15, 2025 |
Hardware packet timestamping | You can enable hardware packet timestamping on your EC2 instance to add a 64-bit nanosecond-precision timestamp to every incoming network packet. | June 23, 2025 |
Delete snapshots during AMI deregistration | When deregistering an AMI, you can automatically delete its associated snapshots at the same time. | May 28, 2025 |
User-initiated reboot migration | When your instance receives an EC2 scheduled reboot event notification, it is enabled by default for instance migration when you reboot the instance before the event. | May 20, 2025 |
SIP configuration for Amazon EC2 Mac instances | You can configure System Integrity Protection (SIP) settings for x86 Mac instances and Apple silicon Mac instances. | May 20, 2025 |
Root volume ownership delegation | You can now automate root volume ownership delegation for the Amazon EBS root volume when updating the operating system on Apple silicon Mac instances. | May 20, 2025 |
Instance topology for P6-B200 instances | You can get the instance topology information for
| May 15, 2025 |
Updated managed policies for the EC2 Fast Launch service linked role | Updated the EC2 Fast Launch service linked role policy with access to create
and maintain Amazon EventBridge event rules, and other actions to enhance the EC2 Fast
Launch experience. For more information about permissions granted by the service
linked role, see Permissions granted by
| May 14, 2025 |
Updated managed policies for the EC2 Fast Launch full access policy | Updated the EC2 Fast Launch full access policy with permission to Create and Modify Launch Template operations, to create network and security group resources, authorize ingress rules, and delete resources that EC2 Fast Launch created. The policy can additionally describe and create CloudFormation stacks, and delete stacks that EC2 Fast Launch created. | May 14, 2025 |
Simplified onboarding for EC2 Fast Launch | Updated EC2 Fast Launch to simplify the onboarding process. | May 14, 2025 |
AWS Config integration with Allowed AMIs | Use the ec2-instance-launched-with-allowed-ami AWS Config rule to check if running or stopped instances were launched with AMIs that meet your Allowed AMIs criteria. | March 11, 2025 |
Updated AWSEC2CapacityReservationFleetRolePolicy managed policy | Amazon EC2 updated the | March 3, 2025 |
Time-based AMI copies | You can now request a completion duration for EBS-backed AMI copy operations to ensure that AMI copies are completed within a specific timeframe. | February 25, 2025 |
Updated AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess policy | Amazon EC2 added the | December 27, 2024 |
Managed instances | You can now view Amazon EC2 managed instances in the EC2 console. | December 1, 2024 |
Declarative policies | You can now use declarative policies to apply account-level settings across multiple Regions and accounts simultaneously. Declarative policies are supported for configuring EC2 serial console access, Allowed AMIs, IMDS defaults, and block public access settings for VPCs, AMIs, and snapshots. For more information, see Declarative policies in the AWS Organizations User Guide, as well as the specific documentation for each supported feature. | December 1, 2024 |
Allowed AMIs | You can now control the discovery and use of AMIs in Amazon EC2 by specifying criteria that AMIs must meet. | December 1, 2024 |
Instant Capacity Blocks | You can now reserve Capacity Blocks for ML, that can start as soon as 30 minutes. | November 21, 2024 |
Future-dated Capacity Reservations | You can now request Capacity Reservations for a future date. | November 21, 2024 |
Extend Capacity Block | You can now extend the duration of existing Capacity Blocks. | November 21, 2024 |
6 month Capacity Blocks | You can now reserve Capacity Blocks for ML for up to 6 months (182 days). | November 21, 2024 |
Saved filter sets | You can now create customized groups of filters and reuse them to efficiently view your EC2 resources. | November 20, 2024 |
Performance protection | When using attribute-based instance type selection for your EC2 Fleet or Spot Fleet, you can now enable performance protection to ensure that the selected instance types are similar to or exceed a specified performance baseline. | November 20, 2024 |
Capacity Reservations only | You can now specify that instances will only run in a Capacity Reservation or Capacity Reservation resource group. | November 20, 2024 |
Identify source AMI | You can now identify the source AMI that was used to create an AMI. | November 13, 2024 |
Split capacity | You can split off capacity from an existing Capacity Reservation to create a new reservation. | October 30, 2024 |
Move capacity | You can now move capacity from one Capacity Reservation to another. | October 30, 2024 |
Beginner tutorials | Two new tutorials for beginners: Launch my very first EC2 instance and Launch a test EC2 instance and connect to it. | October 21, 2024 |
Windows Server 2025 support | Add support for Windows Server 2025. | October 16, 2024 |
EC2 Global View | EC2 Global View now enables you to view Capacity Reservations and Capacity Blocks in your account across all Regions. | October 16, 2024 |
Live migration host maintenance | Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now support live migration host maintenance, which automatically migrates supported instances from an impaired Dedicated Host to a replacement Dedicated Host without stopping and restarting them. | October 15, 2024 |
Billing assignment for shared Capacity Reservations | You can now assign the billing of any available capacity of a shared Capacity Reservation to a consumer account that belongs to the same AWS organization. | October 14, 2024 |
PTP hardware clock - additional Region support | The PTP hardware clock is now also available in US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia). | September 23, 2024 |
EC2 Instance Connect supports IPv6 | You can now use EC2 Instance Connect to connect to the public IPv6 address of your instance. | September 23, 2024 |
EC2 Instance Connect prefix lists | You can now select a managed prefix list for IPv4 or IPv6 addresses when creating rules in your security groups to allow SSH traffic from the EC2 Instance Connect service. | September 23, 2024 |
New capabilities to manage On-Demand Capacity Reservations | You can now split your Capacity Reservation, move capacity between Capacity Reservations, and modify the instance eligibility attribute of your Capacity Reservation. | August 14, 2024 |
Hibernation support for C6g, C6gn, C6gd, C7g, C7gd, M6g, M6gd, M7g, M7gd, R6g, and R6gd | Hibernate your newly-launched instances running on C6g, C6gn, C6gd, C7g, C7gd, M6g, M6gd, M7g, M7gd, R6g, and R6gd instance types. | July 30, 2024 |
Hibernation support for AMIs that support Graviton instance types | Hibernate your newly-launched instances that were launched from an Amazon Linux or Ubuntu AMI that supports Graviton instance types. | July 30, 2024 |
Additional instance types supported for Credential Guard | You can now enable Credential Guard for C7i, C7-flex, M7i, M7i-flex, R7i, R7i-flex, and T3 instances. | June 26, 2024 |
EC2 instance type finder – additional parameters | The EC2 instance type finder now provides additional parameters for you to specify more detailed requirements for your workload. | June 5, 2024 |
New managed policy for EC2 Fast Launch | Added the EC2FastLaunchFullAccess policy to perform API actions related to the EC2 Fast Launch feature from an instance. | May 14, 2024 |
AMI deregistration protection | You can turn on deregistration protection on an AMI to prevent accidental or malicious deletion. | April 23, 2024 |
PTP hardware clock – instance type support | The PTP hardware clock is now available on M7a, M7g, M7i, R7a, and R7i instance types. | April 22, 2024 |
Added Nitro performance considerations for enhanced networking | This page focuses on network considerations to help with performance tuning for your Nitro based Amazon EC2 instances. | April 4, 2024 |
New managed policy for VSS based EBS snapshots | Amazon EC2 VSS has a new IAM managed policy available that you can add to your instance profile role to ensure that your permissions stay up-to-date and follow best practices. | March 28, 2024 |
PTP hardware clock – US East (N. Virginia) | The PTP hardware clock is now available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. | March 26, 2024 |
Set IMDSv2 as the account default | You can set all new EC2 instance launches in your account to use Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) by default. | March 25, 2024 |
Tag new Linux AMIs created from a snapshot | When you create a Linux AMI from a snapshot, you can tag the new AMI. | March 7, 2024 |
Tag new AMIs and snapshots when copying | When you copy an AMI, you can tag the new AMI and the new snapshots with the same tags, or you can tag them with different tags. | March 7, 2024 |
Remove AWS Management Pack pages | The AWS Management Pack was primarily used with Windows Server 2012 and
prior. Those legacy OS platform versions are no longer supported. To manage and
troubleshoot your fleet of servers running on AWS and on-premises, see AWS Systems Manager Fleet
Manager | February 12, 2024 |
EC2 Instance Connect preinstalled on macOS AMIs | EC2 Instance Connect now comes preinstalled on macOS Sonoma 14.2.1 or later, macOS Ventura 13.6.3 or later, and macOS Monterey 12.7.2 or later AMIs. | January 26, 2024 |
EC2 Instance Connect support for CentOS, macOS, and RHEL | You can now install EC2 Instance Connect on supported CentOS, macOS, and RHEL AMIs. | December 6, 2023 |
Hibernation support for C7a, C7i, R7a, R7i, and R7iz | Hibernate your newly-launched instances running on C7a, C7i, R7a, R7i, and R7iz instance types. | December 1, 2023 |
Amazon Q EC2 instance type selector | Amazon Q EC2 instance type selector considers your use case, workload type, and CPU manufacturer preference, as well as how you prioritize price and performance. It then uses this data to provide guidance and suggestions for Amazon EC2 instance types that are best suited for your new workloads. | November 28, 2023 |
EC2 Free Tier | You can track your EC2 Free Tier usage from the EC2 Dashboard. | November 26, 2023 |
Console-to-Code | Console-to-Code can help you get started with your automation code. Console-to-Code records your console actions, and then uses generative AI to suggest code in your preferred infrastructure-as code format. You can use the code as a starting point, customizing it to make it production-ready for your specific use case. | November 26, 2023 |
Configurable idle connection tracking timeouts | Security group connections that remain idle can lead to connection tracking exhaustion and cause connections not to be tracked and packets to be dropped. You can now set the timeout in seconds for security group connection tracking on an Elastic network interface. | November 17, 2023 |
PTP hardware clock | Supported instances now have a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) hardware clock. The PTP hardware clock supports either NTP or a direct PTP connection. | November 16, 2023 |
Change instance type of instance enabled for hibernation | You can now change the instance type of an instance enabled for hibernation
when it is in the | November 16, 2023 |
Instance topology | You can use the DescribeInstanceTopology API to detect the location of your instances, and then use this information to optimize HPC and ML jobs by running them on instances that are physically closer to each other. | November 13, 2023 |
EC2 Fast Launch shared AMI support | You can now enable EC2 Fast Launch on an AMI that's shared with you. When you enable EC2 Fast Launch on a shared AMI, the pre-provisioned snapshots for faster launching are created in your account. | November 6, 2023 |
Capacity Blocks for ML | You can now reserve GPU instances on a future date to support your short duration machine learning (ML) workloads. | October 31, 2023 |
Spot Instance hibernation | You can now hibernate your Spot Instances using the same hibernation experience and instance families that are currently available for On-Demand Instances. | October 24, 2023 |
Default settings for block public access for AMIs | Block public access for AMIs is now enabled by default for all new accounts and for existing accounts with no public AMIs. | October 20, 2023 |
Amazon EC2 Global View | Amazon EC2 Global View supports additional resource types and customizable display options. | October 18, 2023 |
Hibernation support for Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) | Hibernate your newly-launched instances that were launched from the Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) AMI. | October 16, 2023 |
Disable an AMI | You can disable an AMI to prevent it from being used for instance launches. | October 12, 2023 |
Attached EBS status checks | You can use the attached EBS status checks to monitor if the Amazon EBS volumes attached to an instance are reachable. | October 11, 2023 |
Hibernation support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Hibernate your newly-launched instances that were launched from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 AMI. | October 2, 2023 |
Hibernation support for Microsoft Windows Server 2022 | Hibernate your newly-launched instances that were launched from the Microsoft Windows Server 2022 AMI. | October 2, 2023 |
Hibernation support for AL2023 | Hibernate your newly-launched instances that were launched from the AL2023 AMI. | October 2, 2023 |
Initiate interruption of Spot Instances in a Spot Fleet | You can select a Spot Fleet in the Amazon EC2 console and initiate an interruption of Spot Instances in the fleet so that you can test how the applications on your Spot Instances handle being interrupted. | September 21, 2023 |
Block public access to AMIs | You can enable block public access for AMIs at the account level to block any attempts to make your AMIs public. | September 12, 2023 |
Hibernation support for M7i and M7i-flex | Hibernate your newly-launched instances running on M7i and M7i-flex instance types. | August 22, 2023 |
EC2-Classic has been deprecated | With EC2-Classic, EC2 instances ran in a single, flat network shared with other customers. Amazon VPC replaces EC2-Classic. With Amazon VPC, your instances run in a virtual private cloud (VPC) that's logically isolated to your AWS account. | August 8, 2023 |
Dedicated Hosts | You can allocate Dedicated Hosts on specific hardware assets on an Outpost. | June 20, 2023 |
EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint | You can now connect to an instance through SSH or RDP without requiring the instance to have a public IPv4 address. | June 13, 2023 |
IMDS Package Analyzer | You can now use the IMDS Packet Analyzer to identify sources of IMDSv1 calls on your EC2 instances. | June 1, 2023 |
EC2 Serial Console bare metal instances | The EC2 serial console now supports connectivity to the serial port of selected bare metal instances. | April 11, 2023 |
Launch template quotas | You can now view your quotas for launch templates and launch template versions in the Service Quotas console and by using the Service Quotas CLI. | April 3, 2023 |
Capacity Reservation utilization notifications | AWS Health now sends notifications when capacity utilization for Capacity Reservations in your account drops below 20 percent. | April 3, 2023 |
Capacity Reservation groups | You can now add Capacity Reservations that are shared with you to Capacity Reservation groups that you own. | March 30, 2023 |
Modify instance metadata options | You can now use the Amazon EC2 console to modify instance metadata options. | March 20, 2023 |
In-place macOS operating system updates | You can now perform in-place Apple macOS operating system updates on M1 Mac instances. | March 14, 2023 |
UEFI preferred | You can now create a single AMI that supports both Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and Legacy BIOS boot modes. | March 3, 2023 |
Modify an AMI for IMDSv2 | Modify your existing AMI so that instances launched from the AMI require IMDSv2 by default. | February 28, 2023 |
Windows Virtualization-based security - Credential Guard | You can enable Credential Guard, a Virtualization-based security (VBS) feature, on supported Amazon EC2 instances. | January 31, 2023 |
New managed policy for EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint | Added the | January 24, 2023 |
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 the AMI ID changes. | January 19, 2023 |
Hibernation support for C6i, I3en, and M6i | Hibernate your newly-launched instances running on C6i, I3en, and M6i instance types. | December 19, 2022 |
Torn write prevention | Improve the performance of your I/O-intensive relational database workloads and reduce latency without negatively impacting data resiliency with torn write prevention, a block storage feature. | November 29, 2022 |
ENA Express | Increase throughput and minimize tail latency of network traffic between EC2 instances with ENA Express. | November 28, 2022 |
Copy AMI tags | When you copy an AMI, you can copy your user-defined AMI tags at the same time. | November 18, 2022 |
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. | November 16, 2022 |
priceCapacityOptimized allocation strategy for Spot Instances | A Spot Fleet that uses the | November 10, 2022 |
price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy for Spot Instances | An EC2 Fleet that uses the | November 10, 2022 |
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 launch permissions. | November 4, 2022 |
Transfer Elastic IP addresses | You can now transfer Elastic IP addresses from one AWS account to another. | October 31, 2022 |
Replace root volume | You can replace the root Amazon EBS volume for a running instance using an AMI. | October 27, 2022 |
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. | October 10, 2022 |
AMI quotas | Quotas now apply to creating and sharing AMIs. | October 10, 2022 |
Configure AMI for IMDSv2 | Configure your AMI so that instances launched from the AMI require IMDSv2 by default. | October 3, 2022 |
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 Instances handle being interrupted. | September 26, 2022 |
Verified AMI provider | In the Amazon EC2 console, public AMIs that are owned by Amazon or a verified Amazon partner are marked Verified provider. | July 22, 2022 |
Placement groups on AWS Outposts | Added a host spread strategy for placement groups on an Outpost. | June 30, 2022 |
Dedicated Hosts on AWS Outposts | You can allocate Dedicated Hosts on AWS Outposts. | May 31, 2022 |
Instance stop protection | To prevent your instance from being accidentally stopped, you can enable stop protection for the instance. | May 24, 2022 |
UEFI Secure Boot | UEFI Secure Boot builds on the long-standing secure boot process of Amazon EC2 and provides additional defense-in-depth that helps customers secure software from threats that persist across reboots. | May 10, 2022 |
NitroTPM | Nitro Trusted Platform Module (NitroTPM) is a virtual device that is provided by the AWS Nitro System and conforms to the TPM 2.0 specification. | May 10, 2022 |
AMI state change events | Amazon EC2 now generates an event when an AMI changes state. You can use Amazon EventBridge to detect and react to these events. | May 9, 2022 |
Describe public keys | You can query the public key and creation date of an Amazon EC2 key pair. | April 28, 2022 |
Create key pairs | You can specify the key format (PEM or PPK) when creating a new key pair. | April 28, 2022 |
Mount Amazon FSx file systems at launch | You can mount a new or existing Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP or Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file system at launch using the new launch instance wizard. | April 12, 2022 |
New launch instance wizard | A new and improved launch experience in the Amazon EC2 console, providing a quicker and easier way to launch an EC2 instance. | April 5, 2022 |
Automatically deprecate public AMIs | By default, the deprecation date of all public AMIs is set to two years from the AMI creation date. | March 31, 2022 |
AMI last launched time | The | February 28, 2022 |
ED25519 keys | ED25519 keys are now supported for EC2 Instance Connect and EC2 Serial Console. | January 20, 2022 |
Additional RHEL platforms for Capacity Reservations | Additional Red Hat Enterprise Linux platforms for On-Demand Capacity Reservations. | January 11, 2022 |
Configure Windows AMIs for faster launching | Configure Windows AMIs to launch instances up to 65% faster, using pre-provisioned snapshots. | January 10, 2022 |
Instance tags in instance metadata | You can access an instance's tags from the instance metadata. | January 6, 2022 |
Capacity Reservations in cluster placement groups | You can create Capacity Reservations in cluster placement groups. | January 6, 2022 |
Spot Fleet launch-before-terminate | Spot Fleet can terminate the Spot Instances that receive a rebalance notification after new replacement Spot Instances are launched. | November 4, 2021 |
EC2 Fleet launch-before-terminate | EC2 Fleet can terminate the Spot Instances that receive a rebalance notification after new replacement Spot Instances are launched. | November 4, 2021 |
Compare timestamps | You can determine the true time of an event by comparing the timestamp of your Amazon EC2 Linux instance with ClockBound. | November 2, 2021 |
Share AMIs with organizations and OUs | You can now share AMIs with the following AWS resources: organizations and organizational units (OUs). | October 29, 2021 |
Spot placement score | Get a recommendation for an AWS Region or Availability Zone based on your Spot capacity requirements. | October 27, 2021 |
Attribute-based instance type selection for Spot Fleet | Specify the attributes that an instance must have, and Amazon EC2 will identify all the instance types with those attributes. | October 27, 2021 |
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. | October 27, 2021 |
On-Demand Capacity Reservation Fleet | You can use a Capacity Reservation Fleet to launch a group, or fleet, of Capacity Reservations. | October 5, 2021 |
Hibernation support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Focal | Hibernate your newly-launched instances that were launched from the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Focal AMI. | October 4, 2021 |
EC2 Fleet and targeted On-Demand Capacity Reservations | EC2 Fleet can launch On-Demand Instances into | September 22, 2021 |
T3 instances on Dedicated Hosts | Support for T3 instances on Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host. | September 14, 2021 |
Hibernation support for RHEL, Fedora, and CentOS | Hibernate your newly-launched instances that were launched from RHEL, Fedora, and CentOS AMIs. | September 9, 2021 |
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. | September 1, 2021 |
Hibernation support for C5d, M5d, and R5d | Hibernate your newly-launched instances running on C5d, M5d, and R5d instance types. | August 19, 2021 |
Amazon EC2 key pairs | Amazon EC2 now supports ED25519 keys on Linux and Mac instances. | August 17, 2021 |
Prefixes for network interfaces | You can assign a private IPv4 or IPv6 CIDR range, either automatically or manually, to your network interfaces. | July 22, 2021 |
Event windows | You can define custom, weekly-recurring event windows for scheduled events that reboot, stop, or terminate your Amazon EC2 instances. | July 15, 2021 |
Resource IDs and tagging support for security group rules | You can refer to security group rules by resource ID. You can also add tags to your security group rules. | July 7, 2021 |
Deprecate an AMI | You can now specify when an AMI is deprecated. | June 11, 2021 |
Windows per-second billing | Amazon EC2 charges for Windows- and SQL Server-based usage by the second, with a one-minute minimum charge. | June 10, 2021 |
Capacity Reservations on AWS Outposts | You can now use Capacity Reservations on AWS Outposts. | May 24, 2021 |
Capacity Reservation sharing | You can now share Capacity Reservations created in Local Zones and Wavelength Zones. | May 24, 2021 |
Root volume replacement | You can now use root volume replacement tasks to replace the root EBS volume for running instances. | April 22, 2021 |
Store and restore an AMI using S3 | Store EBS-backed AMIs in S3 and restore them from S3 to enable cross-partition copying of AMIs. | April 6, 2021 |
EC2 Serial Console | Troubleshoot boot and network connectivity issues by establishing a connection to the serial port of an instance. | March 30, 2021 |
Boot modes | Amazon EC2 now supports UEFI boot on selected AMD- and Intel-based EC2 instances. | March 22, 2021 |
Create a reverse DNS record | You can now set up reverse DNS lookup for your Elastic IP addresses. | February 3, 2021 |
Tag AMIs and snapshots on AMI creation | When you create an AMI, you can tag the AMI and the snapshots with the same tags, or you can tag them with different tags. | December 4, 2020 |
Use Amazon EventBridge to monitor Spot Fleet events | Create EventBridge rules that trigger programmatic actions in response to Spot Fleet state changes and errors. | November 20, 2020 |
Use Amazon EventBridge to monitor EC2 Fleet events | Create EventBridge rules that trigger programmatic actions in response to EC2 Fleet state changes and errors. | November 20, 2020 |
Delete instant fleets | Delete an EC2 Fleet of type | November 18, 2020 |
Hibernation support for T3 and T3a | Hibernate your newly-launched instances running on T3 and T3a instance types. | November 17, 2020 |
Amazon EFS Quick Create | You can create and mount an Amazon EFS file system to an instance at launch using Amazon EFS Quick Create. | November 9, 2020 |
Capacity Reservations in Wavelength Zones | Capacity Reservations can now be created and used in Wavelength Zones. | November 4, 2020 |
Hibernation support for I3, M5ad, and R5ad | Hibernate your newly-launched instances running on I3, M5ad, and R5ad instance types. | October 21, 2020 |
Spot Instance vCPU limits | Spot Instance limits are now managed in terms of the number of vCPUs that your running Spot Instances are either using or will use pending the fulfillment of open requests. | October 1, 2020 |
Capacity Reservations in Local Zones | Capacity Reservations can now be created and used in Local Zones. | September 30, 2020 |
Hibernation support for M5a and R5a | Hibernate your newly-launched instances running on M5a and R5a instance types. | August 28, 2020 |
Instance metadata provides instance location and placement information | New instance metadata fields under the | August 24, 2020 |
Capacity Reservation groups | You can use AWS Resource Groups to create logical collections of Capacity Reservations, and then target instance launches into those groups. | July 29, 2020 |
You can use EC2Launch v2 to perform tasks during instance startup, if an instance is stopped and later started, if an instance is restarted, and on demand. EC2Launch v2 supports all versions of Windows Server and replaces EC2Launch and EC2Config. | June 30, 2020 | |
Bring your own IPv6 addresses | You can bring part or all of your IPv6 address range from your on-premises network to your AWS account. | May 21, 2020 |
Launch instances using a Systems Manager parameter | You can specify a AWS Systems Manager parameter instead of an AMI when you launch an instance. | May 5, 2020 |
Customize scheduled event notifications | You can customize scheduled event notifications to include tags in the email notification. | May 4, 2020 |
Windows Server on Dedicated Hosts | You can use Windows Server AMIs provided by Amazon to run the latest versions of Windows Server on Dedicated Hosts. | April 7, 2020 |
Stop and start a Spot Instance | Stop your Spot Instances backed by Amazon EBS and start them at will, instead of relying on the stop interruption behavior. | January 13, 2020 |
Resource tagging | You can tag egress-only internet gateways, local gateways, local gateway route tables, local gateway virtual interfaces, local gateway virtual interface groups, local gateway route table VPC associations, and local gateway route table virtual interface group associations. | January 10, 2020 |
Connect to your instance using Session Manager | You can start a Session Manager session with an instance from the Amazon EC2 console. | December 18, 2019 |
Dedicated Hosts and host resource groups | Dedicated Hosts can now be used with host resource groups. | December 2, 2019 |
Dedicated Host sharing | You can now share your Dedicated Hosts across AWS accounts. | December 2, 2019 |
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. | November 25, 2019 |
Instance type discovery | You can find an instance type that meets your needs. | November 22, 2019 |
Dedicated Hosts | You can now configure a Dedicated Host to support multiple instance types in an instance family. | November 21, 2019 |
Instance Metadata Service Version 2 | You can use Instance Metadata Service Version 2, which is a session-oriented method for requesting instance metadata. | November 19, 2019 |
Elastic Fabric Adapter | Elastic Fabric Adapters can now be used with Intel MPI 2019 Update 6. | November 15, 2019 |
Hibernation support for On-Demand Windows instances | You can hibernate On-Demand Windows instances. | October 14, 2019 |
Queued purchases of Reserved Instances | You can queue the purchase of a Reserved Instance up to three years in advance. | October 4, 2019 |
Diagnostic interrupt | You can send a diagnostic interrupt to an unreachable or unresponsive instance to trigger a kernel panic. | August 14, 2019 |
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. | August 12, 2019 |
On-Demand Capacity Reservation sharing | You can now share your Capacity Reservations across AWS accounts. | July 29, 2019 |
Elastic Fabric Adapter | EFA now supports Open MPI 3.1.4 and Intel MPI 2019 Update 4. | July 26, 2019 |
EC2 Instance Connect | EC2 Instance Connect is a simple and secure way to connect to your instances using Secure Shell (SSH). | June 27, 2019 |
Host recovery | Automatically restart your instances on a new host in the event of an unexpected hardware failure on a Dedicated Host. | June 5, 2019 |
VSS application-consistent snapshots | Take application-consistent snapshots of all Amazon EBS volumes attached to your Windows instances using AWS Systems Manager Run Command. | May 13, 2019 |
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 EC2 User Guide. | May 8, 2019 |
Windows Automated Upgrade | Perform automated upgrades of EC2 Windows instances using AWS Systems Manager. | May 6, 2019 |
Elastic Fabric Adapter | You can attach an Elastic Fabric Adapter to your instances to accelerate High Performance Computing (HPC) applications. | April 29, 2019 |
For information about the instance type releases for Amazon EC2, see Document history in the Amazon EC2 Instance Types Guide.
History for 2018 and earlier
The following table describes important additions to the Amazon EC2 User Guide in 2018 and earlier years.
| Feature | API version | Description | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partition placement groups | 2016-11-15 | Partition placement groups spread instances across logical partitions, ensuring that instances in one partition do not share underlying hardware with instances in other partitions. For more information, see Partition placement groups. | 20 December 2018 |
| Hibernate EC2 Linux instances | 2016-11-15 | You can hibernate a Linux instance if it's enabled for hibernation and it meets the hibernation prerequisites. For more information, see Hibernate your Amazon EC2 instance. | 28 November 2018 |
| Amazon Elastic Inference Accelerators | 2016-11-15 | You can attach an Amazon EI accelerator to your instances to add GPU-powered acceleration to reduce the cost of running deep learning inference. | 28 November 2018 |
| Spot console recommends a fleet of instances | 2016-11-15 |
The Spot console recommends a fleet of instances based on Spot best practice (instance diversification) to meet the minimum hardware specifications (vCPUs, memory, and storage) for your application need. For more information, see Create a Spot Fleet. |
20 November 2018 |
| New EC2 Fleet request type: instant | 2016-11-15 | EC2 Fleet now supports a new request type, instant, that you
can use to synchronously provision capacity across instance types and
purchase models. The instant request returns the launched
instances in the API response, and takes no further action, enabling you
to control if and when instances are launched. For more information, see
EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet request types. |
14 November 2018 |
| Spot savings information | 2016-11-15 | You can view the savings made from using Spot Instances for a single Spot Fleet or for all Spot Instances. For more information, see Savings from purchasing Spot Instances. | 5 November 2018 |
| Console support for optimizing CPU options | 2016-11-15 | When you launch an instance, you can optimize the CPU options to suit specific workloads or business needs using the Amazon EC2 console. For more information, see CPU options for Amazon EC2 instances. | 31 October 2018 |
| Console support for creating a launch template from an instance | 2016-11-15 | You can create a launch template using an instance as the basis for a new launch template using the Amazon EC2 console. For more information, see Create an Amazon EC2 launch template. | 30 October 2018 |
| On-Demand Capacity Reservations | 2016-11-15 | You can reserve capacity for your Amazon EC2 instances in a specific Availability Zone for any duration. This allows you to create and manage capacity reservations independently from the billing discounts offered by Reserved Instances (RI). For more information, see Reserve compute capacity with EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations. | 25 October 2018 |
| Bring Your Own IP Addresses (BYOIP) | 2016-11-15 | You can bring part or all of your public IPv4 address range from your on-premises network to your AWS account. After you bring the address range to AWS, it appears in your account as an address pool. You can create an Elastic IP address from your address pool and use it with your AWS resources. For more information, see Bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP) to Amazon EC2. | 23 October 2018 |
| Dedicated Host tag on create and console support |
2016-11-15 |
You can tag your Dedicated Hosts on creation, and you can manage your Dedicated Host tags using the Amazon EC2 console. For more information, see Allocate an Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host for use in your account. |
08 October 2018 |
| Console support for scheduled scaling for Spot Fleet | 2016-11-15 | Increase or decrease the current capacity of the fleet based on the date and time. For more information, see Scheduled scaling: Scale Spot Fleet on a schedule. | 20 September 2018 |
| Allocation strategies for EC2 Fleets |
2016-11-15 |
You can specify whether On-Demand capacity is fulfilled by price (lowest price first) or priority (highest priority first). You can specify the number of Spot pools across which to allocate your target Spot capacity. For more information, see Use allocation strategies to determine how EC2 Fleet or Spot Fleet fulfills Spot and On-Demand capacity. |
26 July 2018 |
| Allocation strategies for Spot Fleets |
2016-11-15 |
You can specify whether On-Demand capacity is fulfilled by price (lowest price first) or priority (highest priority first). You can specify the number of Spot pools across which to allocate your target Spot capacity. For more information, see Use allocation strategies to determine how EC2 Fleet or Spot Fleet fulfills Spot and On-Demand capacity. |
26 July 2018 |
| Automate snapshot lifecycle |
2016-11-15 |
You can use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to automate creation and deletion of snapshots for your EBS volumes. For more information, see Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager. |
12 July 2018 |
| Launch template CPU options |
2016-11-15 |
When you create a launch template using the command line tools, you can optimize the CPU options to suit specific workloads or business needs. For more information, see Create an Amazon EC2 launch template. |
11 July 2018 |
| Tag Dedicated Hosts |
2016-11-15 |
You can tag your Dedicated Hosts. |
3 July 2018 |
|
Get latest console output |
2016-11-15 |
You can retrieve the latest console output for some instance types when you use the get-console-output AWS CLI command. |
9 May 2018 |
|
Optimize CPU options |
2016-11-15 |
When you launch an instance, you can optimize the CPU options to suit specific workloads or business needs. For more information, see CPU options for Amazon EC2 instances. |
8 May 2018 |
|
EC2 Fleet |
2016-11-15 |
You can use EC2 Fleet to launch a group of instances across different EC2 instance types and Availability Zones, and across On-Demand Instance, Reserved Instance, and Spot Instance purchasing models. For more information, see EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet. |
2 May 2018 |
|
On-Demand Instances in Spot Fleets |
2016-11-15 |
You can include a request for On-Demand capacity in your Spot Fleet request to ensure that you always have instance capacity. For more information, see EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet. |
2 May 2018 |
|
Tag EBS snapshots on creation |
2016-11-15 |
You can apply tags to snapshots during creation. |
2 April 2018 |
|
Change placement groups |
2016-11-15 |
You can move an instance in or out of a placement group, or change its placement group. For more information, see Change the placement for an EC2 instance. |
1 March 2018 |
|
Longer resource IDs |
2016-11-15 |
You can enable the longer ID format for more resource types. |
9 February 2018 |
|
Network performance improvements |
2016-11-15 |
Instances outside of a cluster placement group can now benefit from increased bandwidth when sending or receiving network traffic between other instances or Amazon S3. |
24 January 2018 |
|
Tag Elastic IP addresses |
2016-11-15 |
You can tag your Elastic IP addresses. |
21 December 2017 |
| Amazon Time Sync Service |
2016-11-15 |
You can use the Amazon Time Sync Service to keep accurate time on your instance. For more information, see Precision clock and time synchronization on your EC2 instance. |
29 November 2017 |
| T2 Unlimited |
2016-11-15 |
T2 Unlimited instances can burst above the baseline for as long as required. For more information, see Burstable performance instances. |
29 November 2017 |
| Launch templates |
2016-11-15 |
A launch template can contain all or some of the parameters to launch an instance, so that you don't have to specify them every time you launch an instance. For more information, see Store instance launch parameters in Amazon EC2 launch templates. |
29 November 2017 |
| Spread placement |
2016-11-15 |
Spread placement groups are recommended for applications that have a small number of critical instances that should be kept separate from each other. For more information, see Spread placement groups. |
29 November 2017 |
| Spot Instance hibernation |
2016-11-15 |
The Spot service can hibernate Spot Instances in the event of an interruption. |
28 November 2017 |
| Spot Fleet target tracking |
2016-11-15 |
You can set up target tracking scaling policies for your Spot Fleet. For more information, see Target tracking scaling: Scale Spot Fleet by targeting a value for a specific metric. |
17 November 2017 |
| Spot Fleet integrates with Elastic Load Balancing |
2016-11-15 |
You can attach one or more load balancers to a Spot Fleet. |
10 November 2017 |
|
Merge and split Convertible Reserved Instances |
2016-11-15 |
You can exchange (merge) two or more Convertible Reserved Instances for a new Convertible Reserved Instance. You can also use the modification process to split a Convertible Reserved Instance into smaller reservations. For more information, see Exchange Convertible Reserved Instances. |
6 November 2017 |
|
Modify VPC tenancy |
2016-11-15 |
You can change the instance tenancy attribute of a VPC from
|
16 October 2017 |
|
Per second billing |
2016-11-15 |
Amazon EC2 charges for Linux-based usage by the second, with a one-minute minimum charge. |
2 October 2017 |
|
Stop on interruption |
2016-11-15 |
You can specify whether Amazon EC2 should stop or terminate Spot Instances when they are interrupted. For more information, see Behavior of Spot Instance interruptions. |
18 September 2017 |
|
Tag NAT gateways |
2016-11-15 |
You can tag your NAT gateway. For more information, see Tag your resources. |
7 September 2017 |
|
Security group rule descriptions |
2016-11-15 |
You can add descriptions to your security group rules. |
31 August 2017 |
|
Elastic Graphics |
2016-11-15 |
Attach Elastic Graphics accelerators to your instances to accelerate the graphics performance of your applications. |
29 August 2017 |
|
Recover Elastic IP addresses |
2016-11-15 |
If you release an Elastic IP address for use in a VPC, you might be able to recover it. |
11 August 2017 |
|
Tag Spot Fleet instances |
2016-11-15 |
You can configure your Spot Fleet to automatically tag the instances that it launches. |
24 July 2017 |
|
Tag resources during creation |
2016-11-15 |
You can apply tags to instances and volumes during creation. For more information, see Tag your resources. In addition, you can use tag-based resource-level permissions to control the tags that are applied. For more information see, Grant permission to tag Amazon EC2 resources during creation. |
28 March 2017 |
|
Perform modifications on attached EBS volumes |
2016-11-15 |
With most EBS volumes attached to most EC2 instances, you can modify volume size, type, and IOPS without detaching the volume or stopping the instance. |
13 February 2017 |
|
Attach an IAM role |
2016-11-15 |
You can attach, detach, or replace an IAM role for an existing instance. For more information, see IAM roles for Amazon EC2. |
9 February 2017 |
|
Dedicated Spot Instances |
2016-11-15 |
You can run Spot Instances on single-tenant hardware in a virtual private cloud (VPC). For more information, see Launch on single-tenant hardware. |
19 January 2017 |
|
IPv6 support |
2016-11-15 |
You can associate an IPv6 CIDR with your VPC and subnets, and assign IPv6 addresses to instances in your VPC. For more information, see Amazon EC2 instance IP addressing. |
1 December 2016 |
|
Automatic scaling for Spot Fleet |
You can now set up scaling policies for your Spot Fleet. For more information, see Understand automatic scaling for Spot Fleet. |
1 September 2016 | |
|
Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) |
2016-04-01 |
You can now use ENA for enhanced networking. For more information, see Enhanced networking on Amazon EC2 instances. |
28 June 2016 |
|
Enhanced support for viewing and modifying longer IDs |
2016-04-01 |
You can now view and modify longer ID settings for other IAM users, IAM roles, or the root user. |
23 June 2016 |
|
Copy encrypted Amazon EBS snapshots between AWS accounts |
2016-04-01 |
You can now copy encrypted EBS snapshots between AWS accounts. |
21 June 2016 |
|
Capture a screenshot of an instance console |
2015-10-01 |
You can now obtain additional information when debugging instances that are unreachable. For more information, see Capture a screenshot of an unreachable instance. |
24 May 2016 |
|
Two new EBS volume types |
2015-10-01 |
You can now create Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) and Cold HDD (sc1) volumes. |
19 April 2016 |
|
Added new NetworkPacketsIn and NetworkPacketsOut metrics for Amazon EC2 |
Added new NetworkPacketsIn and NetworkPacketsOut metrics for Amazon EC2. For more information, see Instance metrics. |
23 March 2016 | |
|
CloudWatch metrics for Spot Fleet |
You can now get CloudWatch metrics for your Spot Fleet. For more information, see Monitor your EC2 Fleet or Spot Fleet using CloudWatch. |
21 March 2016 | |
|
Scheduled Instances |
2015-10-01 |
Scheduled Reserved Instances (Scheduled Instances) enable you to purchase capacity reservations that recur on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, with a specified start time and duration. |
13 January 2016 |
|
Longer resource IDs |
2015-10-01 |
Amazon EC2 is gradually introducing longer length IDs for some Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS resource types. During the opt-in period, you can enable the longer ID format for supported resource types. |
13 January 2016 |
|
ClassicLink DNS support |
2015-10-01 |
You can enable ClassicLink DNS support for your VPC so that DNS hostnames that are addressed between linked EC2-Classic instances and instances in the VPC resolve to private IP addresses and not public IP addresses. |
11 January 2016 |
|
Dedicated hosts |
2015-10-01 |
An Amazon EC2 Dedicated host is a physical server with instance capacity dedicated for your use. For more information, see Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts. |
23 November 2015 |
|
Spot Instance duration |
2015-10-01 |
You can now specify a duration for your Spot Instances. Spot blocks is not supported (January 2023). |
6 October 2015 |
|
Spot Fleet modify request |
2015-10-01 |
You can now modify the target capacity of your Spot Fleet request. For more information, see Modify a Spot Fleet request. |
29 September 2015 |
|
Spot Fleet diversified allocation strategy |
2015-04-15 |
You can now allocate Spot Instances in multiple Spot pools using a single Spot Fleet request. For more information, see Use allocation strategies to determine how EC2 Fleet or Spot Fleet fulfills Spot and On-Demand capacity. |
15 September 2015 |
|
Spot Fleet instance weighting |
2015-04-15 |
You can now define the capacity units that each instance type contributes to your application's performance, and adjust the amount you are willing to pay for Spot Instances for each Spot pool accordingly. For more information, see Use instance weighting to manage cost and performance of your EC2 Fleet or Spot Fleet. |
31 August 2015 |
|
New reboot alarm action and new IAM role for use with alarm actions |
Added the reboot alarm action and new IAM role for use with alarm actions. For more information, see Create alarms that stop, terminate, reboot, or recover an instance. |
23 July 2015 | |
|
Spot Fleets |
2015-04-15 |
You can manage a collection, or fleet, of Spot Instances instead of managing separate Spot Instance requests. For more information, see EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet. |
18 May 2015 |
|
Migrate Elastic IP addresses to EC2-Classic |
2015-04-15 |
You can migrate an Elastic IP address that you've allocated for use in EC2-Classic to be used in a VPC.. |
15 May 2015 |
|
Importing VMs with multiple disks as AMIs |
2015-03-01 |
The VM Import process now supports importing VMs with multiple disks as AMIs. For more information, see Importing a VM as an Image Using VM Import/Export in the VM Import/Export User Guide . |
23 April 2015 |
|
Systems Manager |
Systems Manager enables you to configure and manage your EC2 instances. |
17 February 2015 |
|
|
Systems Manager for Microsoft SCVMM 1.5 |
You can now use Systems Manager for Microsoft SCVMM to launch an instance and to import a VM from SCVMM to Amazon EC2. |
21 January 2015 |
|
| Automatic recovery for EC2 instances |
You can create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that monitors an Amazon EC2 instance and automatically recovers the instance if it becomes impaired due to an underlying hardware failure or a problem that requires AWS involvement to repair. A recovered instance is identical to the original instance, including the instance ID, IP addresses, and all instance metadata. For more information, see Automatic instance recovery. |
12 January 2015 |
|
| ClassicLink | 2014-10-01 |
ClassicLink enables you to link your EC2-Classic instance to a VPC in your account. You can associate VPC security groups with the EC2-Classic instance, enabling communication between your EC2-Classic instance and instances in your VPC using private IP addresses. |
7 January 2015 |
| Spot Instance termination notices | The best way to protect against Spot Instance interruption is to architect your application to be fault tolerant. In addition, you can take advantage of Spot Instance termination notices, which provide a two-minute warning before Amazon EC2 must terminate your Spot Instance. For more information, see Spot Instance interruption notices. |
5 January 2015 |
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|
Systems Manager for Microsoft SCVMM |
Systems Manager for Microsoft SCVMM provides a simple, easy-to-use interface for managing AWS resources, such as EC2 instances, from Microsoft SCVMM. |
29 October 2014 |
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2014-09-01 |
The |
23 October 2014 |
|
Added support for Amazon CloudWatch Logs |
You can use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to monitor, store, and access your system, application, and custom log files from your instances or other sources. You can then retrieve the associated log data from CloudWatch Logs using the Amazon CloudWatch console, the CloudWatch Logs commands in the AWS CLI, or the CloudWatch Logs SDK. |
10 July 2014 |
|
| New EC2 Service Limits page |
Use the EC2 Service Limits page in the Amazon EC2 console to view the current limits for resources provided by Amazon EC2 and Amazon VPC, on a per-region basis. |
19 June 2014 |
|
| Amazon EBS General Purpose SSD Volumes |
2014-05-01 |
General Purpose SSD volumes offer cost-effective storage that is ideal for a broad range of workloads. These volumes deliver single-digit millisecond latencies, the ability to burst to 3,000 IOPS for extended periods of time, and a base performance of 3 IOPS/GiB. General Purpose SSD volumes can range in size from 1 GiB to 1 TiB. |
16 June 2014 |
|
AWS Management Pack |
AWS Management Pack now supports for System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2. |
22 May 2014 |
|
| Amazon EBS encryption |
2014-05-01 |
Amazon EBS encryption offers seamless encryption of EBS data volumes and snapshots, eliminating the need to build and maintain a secure key management infrastructure. EBS encryption enables data at rest security by encrypting your data using AWS managed keys. The encryption occurs on the servers that host EC2 instances, providing encryption of data as it moves between EC2 instances and EBS storage. |
21 May 2014 |
|
Amazon EC2 Usage Reports |
Amazon EC2 Usage Reports is a set of reports that shows cost and usage data of your usage of EC2. |
28 January 2014 |
|
|
Importing Linux virtual machines |
2013-10-15 |
The VM Import process now supports the importation of Linux instances. For more information, see the VM Import/Export User Guide. |
16 December 2013 |
|
Resource-level permissions for RunInstances |
2013-10-15 |
You can now create policies in AWS Identity and Access Management to control resource-level permissions for the Amazon EC2 RunInstances API action. For more information and example policies, see Identity and access management for Amazon EC2. |
20 November 2013 |
|
Launching an instance from the AWS Marketplace |
You can now launch an instance from the AWS Marketplace using the Amazon EC2 launch wizard. For more information, see Launch an Amazon EC2 instance from an AWS Marketplace AMI. |
11 November 2013 |
|
|
New launch wizard |
There is a new and redesigned EC2 launch wizard. For more information, see Launch an EC2 instance using the launch instance wizard in the console. |
10 October 2013 |
|
|
Modifying instance types of Reserved Instances |
2013-10-01 |
You can now modify the instance type of Linux Reserved Instances within the same family (for example, M1, M2, M3, C1). For more information, see Modify Reserved Instances. |
09 October 2013 |
|
Modifying Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances |
2013-08-15 |
You can now modify Reserved Instances in a Region. For more information, see Modify Reserved Instances. |
11 September 2013 |
|
Assigning a public IP address |
2013-07-15 |
You can now assign a public IP address when you launch an instance in a VPC. For more information, see Assign a public IPv4 address at launch. |
20 August 2013 |
Granting resource-level permissions |
2013-06-15 |
Amazon EC2 supports new Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) and condition keys. For more information, see Identity-based policies for Amazon EC2. |
8 July 2013 |
Incremental Snapshot Copies |
2013-02-01 |
You can now perform incremental snapshot copies. |
11 June 2013 |
AWS Management Pack |
The AWS Management Pack links Amazon EC2 instances and the Windows or Linux operating systems running inside them. The AWS Management Pack is an extension to Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. |
8 May 2013 | |
|
New Tags page |
There is a new Tags page in the Amazon EC2 console. For more information, see Tag your Amazon EC2 resources. |
04 April 2013 | |
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Copy an AMI from one Region to another |
2013-02-01 |
You can copy an AMI from one Region to another, enabling you to launch consistent instances in more than one AWS Region quickly and easily. For more information, see Copy an Amazon EC2 AMI. |
11 March 2013 |
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Launch instances into a default VPC |
2013-02-01 |
Your AWS account is capable of launching instances into either EC2-Classic or a VPC, or only into a VPC, on a region-by-region basis. If you can launch instances only into a VPC, a default VPC is created for you. When you launch an instance, it launches into your default VPC, unless you create a nondefault VPC and specify it when you launch the instance. |
11 March 2013 |
|
EBS snapshot copy |
2012-12-01 |
You can use snapshot copies to create backups of data, to create new Amazon EBS volumes, or to create Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). |
17 December 2012 |
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Updated EBS metrics and status checks for Provisioned IOPS SSD volumes |
2012-10-01 |
Updated the EBS metrics to include two new metrics for Provisioned IOPS SSD volumes. Also added new status checks for Provisioned IOPS SSD volumes. |
20 November 2012 |
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Spot Instance request status |
2012-10-01 |
Spot Instance request status makes it easy to determine the state of your Spot requests. |
14 October 2012 |
| Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace | 2012-08-15 | The Reserved Instance Marketplace matches sellers who have Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances that they no longer need with buyers who are looking to purchase additional capacity. Reserved Instances bought and sold through the Reserved Instance Marketplace work like any other Reserved Instances, except that they can have less than a full standard term remaining and can be sold at different prices. |
11 September 2012 |
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Provisioned IOPS SSD for Amazon EBS |
2012-07-20 |
Provisioned IOPS SSD volumes deliver predictable, high performance for I/O intensive workloads, such as database applications, that rely on consistent and fast response times. |
31 July 2012 |
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IAM roles on Amazon EC2 instances |
2012-06-01 |
IAM roles for Amazon EC2 provide:
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11 June 2012 |
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Spot Instance features that make it easier to get started and handle the potential of interruption. |
You can now manage your Spot Instances as follows:
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7 June 2012 | |
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EC2 instance export and timestamps for status checks for Amazon EC2 |
2012-05-01 |
Added support for exporting Windows Server instances that you originally imported into EC2. Added support for timestamps on instance status and system status to indicate the date and time that a status check failed. |
25 May 2012 |
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EC2 instance export, and timestamps in instance and system status checks for Amazon VPC |
2012-05-01 |
Added support for EC2 instance export to Citrix Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware vSphere. Added support for timestamps in instance and system status checks. |
25 May 2012 |
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AWS Marketplace AMIs |
2012-04-01 |
Added support for AWS Marketplace AMIs. |
19 April 2012 |
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Reserved Instance pricing tiers |
2011-12-15 |
Added a new section discussing how to take advantage of the discount pricing that is built into the Reserved Instance pricing tiers. |
5 March 2012 |
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Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs) for EC2 instances in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud |
2011-12-01 |
Added new section about elastic network interfaces (ENIs) for EC2 instances in a VPC. For more information, see Elastic network interfaces. |
21 December 2011 |
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New offering types for Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances |
2011-11-01 |
You can choose from a variety of Reserved Instance offerings that address your projected use of the instance. |
01 December 2011 |
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Amazon EC2 instance status |
2011-11-01 |
You can view additional details about the status of your instances, including scheduled events planned by AWS that might have an impact on your instances. These operational activities include instance reboots required to apply software updates or security patches, or instance retirements required where there are hardware issues. For more information, see Monitor the status of your Amazon EC2 instances. |
16 November 2011 |
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Spot Instances in Amazon VPC |
2011-07-15 |
Added information about the support for Spot Instances in Amazon VPC. With this update, users can launch Spot Instances a virtual private cloud (VPC). By launching Spot Instances in a VPC, users of Spot Instances can enjoy the benefits of Amazon VPC. |
11 October 2011 |
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Simplified VM import process for users of the CLI tools |
2011-07-15 |
The VM Import process is simplified with the enhanced
functionality of |
15 September 2011 |
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Support for importing in VHD file format |
VM Import can now import virtual machine image files in VHD format. The VHD file format is compatible with the Citrix Xen and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization platforms. With this release, VM Import now supports RAW, VHD and VMDK (VMware ESX-compatible) image formats. For more information, see the VM Import/Export User Guide. |
24 August 2011 | |
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Update to the Amazon EC2 VM Import Connector for VMware vCenter |
Added information about the 1.1 version of the Amazon EC2 VM Import Connector for VMware vCenter virtual appliance (Connector). This update includes proxy support for Internet access, better error handling, improved task progress bar accuracy, and several bug fixes. |
27 June 2011 | |
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Spot Instances Availability Zone pricing changes |
2011-05-15 |
Added information about the Spot Instances Availability Zone pricing feature. In this release, new Availability Zone pricing options have been added as part of the information returned when you query for Spot Instance requests and Spot price history. These additions make it easier to determine the price required to launch a Spot Instance into a particular Availability Zone. |
26 May 2011 |
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AWS Identity and Access Management |
Added information about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), which enables users to specify which Amazon EC2 actions a user can use with Amazon EC2 resources in general. For more information, see Identity and access management for Amazon EC2. |
26 April 2011 | |
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Dedicated instances |
Launched within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), Dedicated Instances are instances that are physically isolated at the host hardware level. Dedicated Instances let you take advantage of Amazon VPC and the AWS cloud, with benefits including on-demand elastic provisioning and pay only for what you use, while isolating your Amazon EC2 compute instances at the hardware level. For more information, see Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances. |
27 March 2011 | |
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Reserved Instances updates to the AWS Management Console |
Updates to the AWS Management Console make it easier for users to view their Reserved Instances and purchase additional Reserved Instances, including Dedicated Reserved Instances. |
27 March 2011 | |
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Metadata information |
2011-01-01 |
Added information about metadata to reflect changes in the 2011-01-01 release. For more information, see Use instance metadata to manage your EC2 instance and Instance metadata categories. |
11 March 2011 |
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Amazon EC2 VM Import Connector for VMware vCenter |
Added information about the Amazon EC2 VM Import Connector for VMware vCenter virtual appliance (Connector). The Connector is a plug-in for VMware vCenter that integrates with VMware vSphere Client and provides a graphical user interface that you can use to import your VMware virtual machines to Amazon EC2. |
3 March 2011 | |
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Force volume detachment |
You can now use the AWS Management Console to force the detachment of an Amazon EBS volume from an instance. |
23 February 2011 |
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Instance termination protection |
You can now use the AWS Management Console to prevent an instance from being terminated. For more information, see Change instance termination protection. |
23 February 2011 |
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VM Import |
2010-11-15 |
Added information about VM Import, which allows you to import a virtual machine or volume into Amazon EC2. For more information, see the VM Import/Export User Guide. |
15 December 2010 |
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Basic monitoring for instances |
2010-08-31 |
Added information about basic monitoring for EC2 instances. |
12 December 2010 |
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Filters and Tags |
2010-08-31 |
Added information about listing, filtering, and tagging resources. For more information, see Find your Amazon EC2 resources and Tag your Amazon EC2 resources. |
19 September 2010 |
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Idempotent Instance Launch |
2010-08-31 |
Added information about ensuring idempotency when running instances. |
19 September 2010 |
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AWS Identity and Access Management for Amazon EC2 |
Amazon EC2 now integrates with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). For more information, see Identity and access management for Amazon EC2. |
2 September 2010 |
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Amazon VPC IP Address Designation |
2010-06-15 |
Amazon VPC users can now specify the IP address to assign an instance launched in a VPC. |
12 July 2010 |
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Amazon CloudWatch monitoring for Amazon EBS Volumes |
Amazon CloudWatch monitoring is now automatically available for Amazon EBS volumes. |
14 June 2010 |
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Reserved Instances with Windows |
Amazon EC2 now supports Reserved Instances with Windows. |
22 February 2010 |
