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AWS announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances, delivering up to a 25% increase in compute performance per vCPU compared with R8g instances powered by Graviton4 processors. The two offerings target databases, caches, and real-time analytics, with R9gd adding local NVMe storage.
AWS reviews the history of Amazon EC2 since the launch of its beta version in 2006, when it was limited to one server type and one Region, through to more than 1,200 instance types across 39 Regions. The latest milestones show how the service expanded from general-purpose computing to AI chips, Mac computers, deployment outside AWS Regions, and security isolation mechanisms supported by formal verification.