Author: Channy Yun (윤석찬)

AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 X8i instances, next-generation memory optimized instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud.

Accelerate AI model development with new training features that enable rapid recovery from failures and automatic scaling based on resource availability.

Accelerate AI model development with new training features that enable instant recovery from failures and automatic scaling based on resource availability.

Reduce data management complexity and costs with automatic normalization across sources, native analytics integration, and built-in support for industry-standard formats like OCSF and Apache Iceberg.

Build and optimize large-scale vector databases up to 10 times faster and at a quarter of the cost with new GPU acceleration and auto-optimization capabilities that automatically balance search quality, speed, and resource usage.

Access fully managed foundation models from leading providers like Google, Kimi AI, MiniMax AI, Mistral AI, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Qwen, including the new Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 3B, 8B, and 14B models through Amazon Bedrock.

New memory-optimized instances deliver up to 5 GHz processor speeds and 3 TiB of memory—ideal for electronic design automation workloads and memory-intensive databases requiring high single-threaded performance.

New AI-powered capabilities help transform legacy mainframe applications into cloud-native architectures while automating complex testing processes—reducing modernization timelines from years to months through intelligent analysis and automated test generation.