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Discussions tagged with aws ec2 on WindowsForum.com cover Amazon Web Services' EC2 compute platform, including recent features like nested virtualization on C8i, M8i, and R8i Intel instances. Topics focus on enabling hypervisors inside EC2 virtual machines, configuration options, and implications for cloud architects, platform engineers, and DevOps teams. Security trade-offs and design choices are recurring themes. The tag is relevant for users managing Windows workloads on AWS, exploring instance types, or evaluating virtualization capabilities within EC2.
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    Amazon Linux 2023 Default AMI Now Launches Kernel 6.18

    Amazon Linux 2023 deployments that resolve the al2023-ami-kernel-default-* SSM parameter now receive Linux kernel 6.18 instead of 6.1 when they launch new instances. AWS changed the parameter on August 17, 2026, according to the AWS Compute Blog, turning what had been a stable “default” kernel...
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    AWS EC2 Capacity Blocks Price Rise (July 1, 2026): What It Means for AI GPU Costs

    Amazon Web Services will raise prices on selected EC2 Capacity Blocks for machine learning on July 1, 2026, affecting high-end GPU reservations used for AI training, simulation, rendering, and other accelerated workloads across multiple AWS regions. The move is narrow in product scope but broad...
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    AWS EC2 G7 Blackwell + cuVS: Making Enterprise AI Inference and Retrieval Operable

    Amazon Web Services made Amazon EC2 G7 instances generally available on June 18, 2026, in the Ohio and Oregon regions, pairing NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs with Intel Xeon 6 processors for AI inference, graphics, analytics, video, and virtual desktop workloads. The headline...
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    AWS Enables Nested Virtualization on C8i M8i R8i EC2 Instances

    Amazon Web Services has quietly flipped the switch on nested virtualization for a subset of its newest Intel-powered EC2 families, putting the long-awaited ability to run a hypervisor inside an EC2 virtual machine into general configuration for 8th‑generation Intel instance types — specifically...