Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

2025/09/23 - 25 updated api methods

Changes   Add Amazon EC2 R8gn instance types

2025/09/18 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Allowed AMIs adds support for four new parameters - marketplaceProductCodes, deprecationTimeCondition, creationDateCondition and imageNames

2025/09/17 - 25 updated api methods

Changes   Add mac-m4.metal and mac-m4pro.metal instance types.

2025/09/04 - 25 updated api methods

Changes   Add m8i, m8i-flex and i8ge instance types.

2025/09/02 - 25 updated api methods

Changes   MaximumEbsAttachments and AttachmentLimitType fields added to DescribeInstanceTypesResponse. G6f, Gr6f, R8i, R8i-flex and p5.4xlarge instance types added to InstanceTypes enum.

2025/08/29 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Release shows new route types such as filtered and advertisement.

2025/08/28 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for copying Amazon EBS snapshot and AMIs to and from Local Zones.

2025/08/26 - 5 new 8 updated api methods

Changes   Add new APIs for viewing how your shared AMIs are used by other accounts, and identify resources in your account that are dependent on particular AMIs

2025/08/25 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Added IPv6 support for AWS Client VPN.

2025/08/19 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Add support for "warning" volume status.

2025/08/14 - 1 new 3 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds ModifyInstanceConnectEndpoint API to update configurations on existing EC2 Instance Connect Endpoints and improves IPv6 support through dualstack DNS names for EC2 Instance Connect Endpoints.

2025/08/12 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Release to allow route table association with a PublicIpv4Pool.

2025/08/11 - 21 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds AvailabilityZoneId support for CreateVolume, DescribeVolume, LaunchTemplates, RunInstances, DescribeInstances, CreateDefaultSubnet, SpotInstances, and CreateDefaultSubnet APIs.

2025/07/31 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Added support for the force option for the EC2 instance terminate command. This feature enables customers to recover resources associated with an instance stuck in the shutting-down state as a result of rare issues caused by a frozen operating system or an underlying hardware problem.

2025/07/30 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Release to show the next hop IP address for routes propagated by VPC Route Server into VPC route tables.

2025/07/25 - 24 updated api methods

Changes   Transit Gateway native integration with AWS Network Firewall. Adding new enum value for the new Transit Gateway Attachment type.

2025/07/23 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Added support for skip-os-shutdown option for the EC2 instance stop and terminate operations. This feature enables customers to bypass the graceful OS shutdown, supporting faster state transitions when instance data preservation isn't critical.

2025/07/21 - 25 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for C8gn, F2 and P6e-GB200 Instance types

2025/07/17 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   AWS Free Tier Version2 Support

2025/07/15 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for volume initialization status, which enables you to monitor when the initialization process for an EBS volume is completed. This release also adds IPv6 support to EC2 Instance Connect Endpoints, allowing you to connect to your EC2 Instance via a private IPv6 address.

2025/07/09 - 2 new 18 updated api methods

Changes   Adds support to Capacity Blocks for ML for purchasing EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers. Customers can now purchase u-p6e-gb200x72 and u-p6e-gb200x36 UltraServers. Adds new DescribeCapacityBlocks andDescribeCapacityBlockStatus APIs. Adds support for CapacityBlockId to DescribeInstanceTopology.

2025/07/03 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds GroupOwnerId as a response member to the DescribeSecurityGroupVpcAssociations API and also adds waiters for SecurityGroupVpcAssociations (SecurityGroupVpcAssociationAssociated and SecurityGroupVpcAssociationDisassociated).

2025/07/01 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Add Context to GetInstanceTypesFromInstanceRequirements API

2025/06/26 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for OdbNetworkArn as a target in VPC Route Tables

2025/06/24 - 9 updated api methods

Changes   This release allows you to create and register AMIs while maintaining their underlying EBS snapshots within Local Zones.

2025/06/09 - 7 updated api methods

Changes   Release to support Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) Subnet and Amazon EVS Network Interface Types.

2025/05/28 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Enable the option to automatically delete underlying Amazon EBS snapshots when deregistering Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)

2025/05/27 - 1 new 7 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds three features - option to store AWS Site-to-Site VPN pre-shared keys in AWS Secrets Manager, GetActiveVpnTunnelStatus API to check the in-use VPN algorithms, and SampleType option in GetVpnConnectionDeviceSampleConfiguration API to get recommended sample configs for VPN devices.

2025/05/23 - 25 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for the C7i-flex, M7i-flex, I7i, I7ie, I8g, P6-b200, Trn2, C8gd, M8gd and R8gd instances

2025/05/21 - 1 new 2 updated api methods

Changes   Release of Dualstack and Ipv6-only EC2 Public DNS hostnames

2025/05/20 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release expands the ModifyInstanceMaintenanceOptions API to enable or disable instance migration during customer-initiated reboots for EC2 Scheduled Reboot Events.

2025/05/19 - 3 new 8 updated api methods

Changes   This release includes new APIs for System Integrity Protection (SIP) configuration and automated root volume ownership delegation for EC2 Mac instances.

2025/05/12 - 10 updated api methods

Changes   EC2 - Adding support for AvailabilityZoneId

2025/05/08 - 16 updated api methods

Changes   Launching the feature to support ENA queues offering flexibility to support multiple queues per Enhanced Network Interface (ENI)

2025/05/07 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds API support for Path Component Exclusion (Filter Out ARN) for Reachability Analyzer

2025/05/06 - 16 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for Amazon EBS Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization, which lets you specify a volume initialization rate to ensure that your EBS volumes are initialized in a predictable amount of time.

2025/05/05 - 6 new 10 updated api methods

Changes   This update introduces API operations to manage and create local gateway VIF and VIF groups. It also includes API operations to describe Outpost LAGs and service link VIFs.

2025/04/30 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   Launch of cost distribution feature for IPAM owners to distribute costs to internal teams.

2025/04/22 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   Added support for ClientRouteEnforcementOptions flag in CreateClientVpnEndpoint and ModifyClientVpnEndpoint requests and DescribeClientVpnEndpoints responses

2025/03/31 - 17 new 11 updated api methods

Changes   Release VPC Route Server, a new feature allowing dynamic routing in VPCs.

2025/03/11 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds the GroupLongName field to the response of the DescribeAvailabilityZones API.

2025/03/07 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Add serviceManaged field to DescribeAddresses API response.

2025/03/03 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Update the DescribeVpcs response

2025/02/26 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon EC2 Fleet customers can now override the Block Device Mapping specified in the Launch Template when creating a new Fleet request, saving the effort of creating and associating new Launch Templates to customize the Block Device Mapping.

2025/02/25 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Adds support for time-based EBS-backed AMI copy operations. Time-based copy ensures that EBS-backed AMIs are copied within and across Regions in a specified timeframe.

2025/02/11 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Adding support for the new fullSnapshotSizeInBytes field in the response of the EC2 EBS DescribeSnapshots API. This field represents the size of all the blocks that were written to the source volume at the time the snapshot was created.

2025/01/23 - 5 updated api methods

Changes   Added "future" allocation type for future dated capacity reservation

2025/01/17 - 25 updated api methods

Changes   Release u7i-6tb.112xlarge, u7i-8tb.112xlarge, u7inh-32tb.480xlarge, p5e.48xlarge, p5en.48xlarge, f2.12xlarge, f2.48xlarge, trn2.48xlarge instance types.

2025/01/13 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Add support for DisconnectOnSessionTimeout flag in CreateClientVpnEndpoint and ModifyClientVpnEndpoint requests and DescribeClientVpnEndpoints responses

2024/12/16 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for EBS local snapshots in AWS Dedicated Local Zones, which allows you to store snapshots of EBS volumes locally in Dedicated Local Zones.

2024/12/09 - 1 new 7 updated api methods

Changes   This release includes a new API for modifying instance network-performance-options after launch.

2024/12/02 - 11 new 51 updated api methods

Changes   Adds support for declarative policies that allow you to enforce desired configuration across an AWS organization through configuring account attributes. Adds support for Allowed AMIs that allows you to limit the use of AMIs in AWS accounts. Adds support for connectivity over non-HTTP protocols.

2024/11/26 - 12 updated api methods

Changes   Adds support for Time-based Copy for EBS Snapshots and Cross Region PrivateLink. Time-based Copy ensures that EBS Snapshots are copied within and across AWS Regions in a specified timeframe. Cross Region PrivateLink enables customers to connect to VPC endpoint services hosted in other AWS Regions.

2024/11/22 - 3 new 12 updated api methods

Changes   Adds support for requesting future-dated Capacity Reservations with a minimum commitment duration, enabling IPAM for organizational units within AWS Organizations, reserving EC2 Capacity Blocks that start in 30 minutes, and extending the end date of existing Capacity Blocks.

2024/11/20 - 15 updated api methods

Changes   With this release, customers can express their desire to launch instances only in an ODCR or ODCR group rather than OnDemand capacity. Customers can express their baseline instances' CPU-performance in attribute-based Instance Requirements configuration by referencing an instance family.

2024/11/19 - 6 new 6 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds VPC Block Public Access (VPC BPA), a new declarative control which blocks resources in VPCs and subnets that you own in a Region from reaching or being reached from the internet through internet gateways and egress-only internet gateways.

2024/11/18 - 16 updated api methods

Changes   Adding request and response elements for managed resources.

2024/11/13 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds the source AMI details in DescribeImages API

2024/10/30 - 3 new 7 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds two new capabilities to VPC Security Groups: Security Group VPC Associations and Shared Security Groups.

2024/10/24 - 1 new api methods

Changes   This release includes a new API to describe some details of the Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that were used to launch EC2 instances, even if those AMIs are no longer available for use.

2024/10/23 - 24 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon EC2 X8g, C8g and M8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors. X8g provide the lowest cost per GiB of memory among Graviton4 instances. C8g provide the best price performance for compute-intensive workloads. M8g provide the best price performance in for general purpose workloads.

2024/10/21 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon EC2 now allows you to create network interfaces with just the EFA driver and no ENA driver by specifying the network interface type as efa-only.

2024/10/10 - 5 new 5 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for assigning the billing of shared Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations.

2024/10/04 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Documentation updates for Amazon EC2.

2024/10/03 - 1 new api methods

Changes   This release includes a new API for modifying instance cpu-options after launch.

2024/09/23 - 24 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon EC2 G6e instances powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs are the most cost-efficient GPU instances for deploying generative AI models and the highest performance GPU instances for spatial computing workloads.

2024/08/28 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) now allows customers to provision IPv4 CIDR blocks and allocate Elastic IP Addresses directly from IPAM pools with public IPv4 space

2024/08/21 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   DescribeInstanceStatus now returns health information on EBS volumes attached to Nitro instances

2024/08/12 - 2 new 1 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds new capabilities to manage On-Demand Capacity Reservations including the ability to split your reservation, move capacity between reservations, and modify the instance eligibility of your reservation.

2024/08/08 - 15 updated api methods

Changes   Launch of private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and Subnets. VPC IPAM supports the planning and monitoring of private IPv6 usage.

2024/07/18 - 3 new 9 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) now supports Bring-Your-Own-IP (BYOIP) for IP addresses registered with any Internet Registry. This feature uses DNS TXT records to validate ownership of a public IP address range.

2024/07/10 - 6 updated api methods

Changes   Add parameters to enable provisioning IPAM BYOIPv4 space at a Local Zone Network Border Group level

2024/07/02 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Documentation updates for Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

2024/06/25 - 24 updated api methods

Changes   This release is for the launch of the new u7ib-12tb.224xlarge, R8g, c7gn.metal and mac2-m1ultra.metal instance types

2024/06/12 - 1 new 13 updated api methods

Changes   Tagging support for Traffic Mirroring FilterRule resource

2024/06/04 - 24 updated api methods

Changes   U7i instances with up to 32 TiB of DDR5 memory and 896 vCPUs are now available. C7i-flex instances are launched and are lower-priced variants of the Amazon EC2 C7i instances that offer a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to scale up to the full compute performance 95% of the time.

2024/05/28 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Providing support to accept BgpAsnExtended attribute

2024/05/08 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Adding Precision Hardware Clock (PHC) to public API DescribeInstanceTypes

2024/05/02 - 1 new api methods

Changes   This release includes a new API for retrieving the public endorsement key of the EC2 instance's Nitro Trusted Platform Module (NitroTPM).

2024/04/24 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Launching capability for customers to enable or disable automatic assignment of public IPv4 addresses to their network interface

2024/04/23 - 2 new 2 updated api methods

Changes   This release introduces EC2 AMI Deregistration Protection, a new AMI property that can be enabled by customers to protect an AMI against an unintended deregistration. This release also enables the AMI owners to view the AMI 'LastLaunchedTime' in DescribeImages API.

2024/04/04 - 24 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon EC2 G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs can be used for a wide range of graphics-intensive and machine learning use cases. Gr6 instances also feature NVIDIA L4 GPUs and can be used for graphics workloads with higher memory requirements.

2024/03/28 - 24 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd and R7gd metal instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances.

2024/03/25 - 2 new api methods

Changes   Added support for ModifyInstanceMetadataDefaults and GetInstanceMetadataDefaults to set Instance Metadata Service account defaults

2024/03/19 - 1 new api methods

Changes   This release adds the new DescribeMacHosts API operation for getting information about EC2 Mac Dedicated Hosts. Users can now see the latest macOS versions that their underlying Apple Mac can support without needing to be updated.

2024/03/15 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Add media accelerator and neuron device information on the describe instance types API.

2024/01/29 - 12 updated api methods

Changes   EC2 Fleet customers who use attribute based instance-type selection can now intuitively define their Spot instances price protection limit as a percentage of the lowest priced On-Demand instance type.

2024/01/24 - 6 updated api methods

Changes   Introduced a new clientToken request parameter on CreateNetworkAcl and CreateRouteTable APIs. The clientToken parameter allows idempotent operations on the APIs.

2024/01/11 - 7 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for adding an ElasticBlockStorage volume configurations in ECS RunTask/StartTask/CreateService/UpdateService APIs. The configuration allows for attaching EBS volumes to ECS Tasks.

2024/01/08 - 24 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon EC2 R7iz bare metal instances are powered by custom 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

2023/12/19 - 6 updated api methods

Changes   Provision BYOIPv4 address ranges and advertise them by specifying the network border groups option in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Dallas AWS Local Zones.

2023/12/08 - 24 updated api methods

Changes   M2 Mac instances are built on Apple M2 Mac mini computers. I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. C7i compute optimized, M7i general purpose and R7i memory optimized instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

2023/12/06 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Releasing the new cpuManufacturer attribute within the DescribeInstanceTypes API response which notifies our customers with information on who the Manufacturer is for the processor attached to the instance, for example: Intel.

2023/12/05 - 12 updated api methods

Changes   Adds A10G, T4G, and H100 as accelerator name options and Habana as an accelerator manufacturer option for attribute based selection

2023/11/20 - 11 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for Security group referencing over Transit gateways, enabling you to simplify Security group management and control of instance-to-instance traffic across VPCs that are connected by Transit gateway.

2023/11/17 - 6 new 34 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds new features for Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) Allowing a choice between Free and Advanced Tiers, viewing public IP address insights across regions and in Amazon Cloudwatch, use IPAM to plan your subnet IPs within a VPC and bring your own autonomous system number to IPAM.

2023/11/16 - 10 updated api methods

Changes   Enable use of tenant-specific PublicSigningKeyUrl from device trust providers and onboard jumpcloud as a new device trust provider.

2023/11/15 - 3 new 24 updated api methods

Changes   AWS EBS now supports Snapshot Lock, giving users the ability to lock an EBS Snapshot to prohibit deletion of the snapshot. This release introduces the LockSnapshot, UnlockSnapshot & DescribeLockedSnapshots APIs to manage lock configuration for snapshots. The release also includes the dl2q_24xlarge.

2023/11/13 - 1 new 1 updated api methods

Changes   Adds the new EC2 DescribeInstanceTopology API, which you can use to retrieve the network topology of your running instances on select platform types to determine their relative proximity to each other.

2023/11/10 - 10 updated api methods

Changes   EC2 adds API updates to enable ENA Express at instance launch time.

2023/11/09 - 3 new api methods

Changes   AWS EBS now supports Block Public Access for EBS Snapshots. This release introduces the EnableSnapshotBlockPublicAccess, DisableSnapshotBlockPublicAccess and GetSnapshotBlockPublicAccessState APIs to manage account-level public access settings for EBS Snapshots in an AWS Region.

2023/10/31 - 2 new 13 updated api methods

Changes   Capacity Blocks for ML are a new EC2 purchasing option for reserving GPU instances on a future date to support short duration machine learning (ML) workloads. Capacity Blocks automatically place instances close together inside Amazon EC2 UltraClusters for low-latency, high-throughput networking.

2023/10/26 - 1 new api methods

Changes   Launching GetSecurityGroupsForVpc API. This API gets security groups that can be associated by the AWS account making the request with network interfaces in the specified VPC.

2023/10/19 - 24 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon EC2 C7a instances, powered by 4th generation AMD EPYC processors, are ideal for high performance, compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing. Amazon EC2 R7i instances are next-generation memory optimized and powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.