Amazon EC2 G6 instances now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany)
AI Impact Summary
Amazon EC2 G6 instances with NVIDIA L4 GPUs are expanding availability to include AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany), significantly broadening access for customers with data residency requirements. These instances are optimized for demanding workloads including ML inference for NLP and video analysis, as well as graphics-intensive applications like real-time rendering. The expanded region also offers increased network bandwidth (100 Gbps) and storage (7.52 TB NVMe SSDs) compared to previously available regions.
Amazon EC2 G6 instances now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany)
Organizations operating in or requiring data residency within the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) can now leverage high-performance GPU instances for demanding workloads, reducing latency and improving data security.
Models affected
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Amazon EC2 G6
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NVIDIA L4
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AWS Management Console
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AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
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AWS SDKs
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Risk domains
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Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs are available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany). G6 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics-intensive and machine learning (ML) use cases. Customers can use G6 instances for deploying ML models for natural language processing, language translation, video and image analysis, speech recognition, and personalization. G6 instances are also well-suited for graphics workloads, such as creating and rendering real-time, cinematic-quality graphics and game streaming. G6 instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs with 24 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. They also support up to 192 vCPUs, up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth, and up to 7.52 TB of local NVMe SSD storage. In addition to AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany), Amazon EC2 G6 instances are available today in the AWS US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Spain, Stockholm and Zurich), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Tokyo, Malaysia, Seoul and Sydney), South America (Sao Paulo), Middle East (UAE) and Canada (Central) Regions. Customers can purchase G6 instances as On-Demand Instances, Spot Instances, or as part of Savings Plans. To get started, visit the AWS Management Console , AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, visit the G6 instance page .