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Amazon EC2 G6 Instances Arrive in Multiple Regions to Boost SageMaker Notebook Performance

AWS launched EC2 G6 instances featuring NVIDIA L4 GPUs and AMD EPYC processors across Asia Pacific and Europe for improved ML inference and training on SageMaker 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.

The general availability of G6 instances in new regions includes Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Mumbai, Sydney) and Europe (London, Paris, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Zurich). These instances incorporate up to eight NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs and 24 GB GPU memory along with third-generation AMD EPYC CPUs.

G6 instances deliver approximately double the deep learning inference performance of prior G4dn instances. They serve use cases like generative AI fine-tuning, natural language processing, computer vision, and recommendation systems, allowing interactive model development and deployment workflows within SageMaker notebooks and Studio environments.

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Announcing Region Expansion of G6 instances on SageMaker Notebook Instances ↗

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.