AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 G7e instances, Amazon Corretto updates, and more (January 26, 2026)
AWS Curated ยท 2026-01-26
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Technical Details
| Affected Versions | 25.0.2, 21.0.10, 17.0.18, 11.0.30, 8u482 |
|---|---|
| Regions | US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central) |
| Cost Impact | Decrease |
| IaC Impact | High |
What This Means
For DevOps Teams
Update your GPU-intensive workloads to utilize the new Amazon EC2 G7e instances, which offer significant performance improvements and support for up to 8 GPUs with 768 GB of total GPU memory.
For Platform Teams
Adopt the new Amazon EC2 G7e instances to enhance your platform's AI inference, spatial computing, and scientific computing capabilities, leveraging the latest Blackwell architecture for superior performance.
For Executives
Evaluate deploying Amazon EC2 G7e instances for GPU-intensive workloads to achieve up to 2.3 times better inference performance and reduce costs by reusing common image layers across repositories.
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