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AWS enabled AMI creation with local snapshots on Outposts on 19 August 2026. The docs add a required --snapshot-location flag, so unchanged create-image automation now returns InvalidParameterValue.
Runtime instances bill EC2 plus a 12% management fee, and 7.8% on G-series. Worked against AWS's published microVM rates, the crossover on an 8 vCPU shape lands near 24% sustained utilisation.
AWS shipped two NVIDIA Blackwell inference families in 2026: G7 with up to 4.6x the inference of G6, and G7e that runs a 70B model on a single 96 GB GPU and is now live in Mumbai. Here is the spec, cost and decision
