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AWS Expands Amazon EC2 P5.48xl Instances to Additional Regions for SageMaker Studio

The P5.48xl GPU instances powered by NVIDIA H100 tensor cores became available in multiple new AWS regions to support demanding AI and HPC workloads via SageMaker Studio notebooks.

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Retrospective edition: 2026-05-13. Source published: 2026-05-12. Added to this archive: 2026-11-03. This briefing was prepared later from the linked announcement; it was not published on this website on the historical edition date.

AWS extended availability of high-performance P5.48xl EC2 instances to regions including US West (San Francisco), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Mumbai, Sydney, Jakarta), and Europe (London, Stockholm). These instances aim to accelerate deep learning model training and inference by leveraging NVIDIA H100 GPUs, promising up to 4x speed gains over prior generation GPUs and 40% better cost efficiency.

Targeted at large language models and diffusion models that underpin generative AI applications such as code generation and multimedia processing, these instances integrate with SageMaker Studio notebooks, providing enhanced infrastructure options in additional geographies for customers requiring scalable AI compute resources.

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Announcing Region Expansion of P5.48xl instances on SageMaker Studio notebooks ↗

Source published 2026-05-12. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.