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EC2 capacity planning gets better when reservations become queryable
Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager data exports to S3 and Athena help teams analyze long-term capacity reservation usage across accounts and Regions.
Graviton5 C9g makes CPU compute modernization worth another look
Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 can improve compute price-performance, but teams need compatibility testing and workload-specific benchmarks.
EC2 G7 instances are a reminder to size GPU workloads by bottleneck
Amazon EC2 G7 instances bring NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPUs to AWS, but builders should evaluate them by memory, networking, storage, and software fit instead of GPU generation alone.
Before downsizing EC2, simulate the EBS burst budget
AWS shows how to simulate EBS burst credits before downsizing EC2 instances, a practical cost-optimization step that avoids turning compute savings into storage throttling.