AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 G7e instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs (January 26, 2026)
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This article summarizes AWS announcements for the week of January 26, 2026, highlighting new GPU instances and service enhancements.
- Amazon EC2 G7e instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs now generally available
- G7e delivers 2.3x better inference performance than G6e instances
- Supports up to 8 GPUs with 768 GB total GPU memory per instance
- Enables running 70B parameter models with FP8 precision on single GPU
- Amazon Corretto releases quarterly security updates for Java LTS versions
- Amazon ECR enables cross-repository layer sharing to reduce storage costs
- CloudWatch Database Insights expands to four additional Asia-Pacific and Mexico regions
- Amazon Connect adds conditional logic to Step-by-Step Guides for dynamic workflows
- Best of AWS re:Invent virtual event scheduled January 28-29
Key focus: GPU-accelerated instances for AI inference workloads and expanded regional availability of monitoring and development tools.
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