How Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) differs in AWS European Sovereign Cloud - AWS European Sovereign Cloud User Guide
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How Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) differs in AWS European Sovereign Cloud

This topic describes the functionality of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable computing capacity—literally, servers in Amazon’s data centers—that you use to build and host your software systems.

Service Differences

The following differences apply to Amazon EC2 in AWS European Sovereign Cloud:

  • Reserved Instances are not supported.

  • Reserved Instance Marketplace is not supported.

  • Capacity Blocks for ML is not supported.

  • AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) is not supported.

  • Amazon Time Sync Service’s PTP hardware clocks are not available

  • Nitro enclaves are not supported.

  • Nitro Trusted Platform Module (NitroTPM) is not supported.

  • Credential Guard for Windows instances is not supported.

Networking Differences

  • Flexible ENA queues are not supported.

  • EC2 Instance Connect is not supported.

How VM Import/Export Differs for AWS European Sovereign Cloud

VM Import/Export is different for AWS ISOE Region in the following ways:

  • You can use the AWS VM Import tools to import VM images from your local environment and convert them into Amazon EC2 instances. For more information, see Importing a VM into Amazon EC2.

  • You can import Microsoft Windows VMs that use the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model. First, create a case in AWS Support Center and request to be allowlisted for Windows BYOL.

  • DescribeConversionTasks, ImportInstance, and ImportVolume are not supported.

Documentation References