Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) in AWS European Sovereign Cloud - AWS European Sovereign Cloud User Guide
How Amazon EC2 differsNetworking DifferencesHow VM Import/Export differsDocumentation
Services or capabilities described in AWS documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region, see the AWS European Sovereign Cloud User Guide.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) 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.

How Amazon EC2 differs

The following differences apply to Amazon EC2:

  • Reserved Instances are not available.

  • Reserved Instance Marketplace is not available.

  • Capacity Blocks for ML is not available.

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

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

  • Nitro enclaves are not available.

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

  • Credential Guard for Windows instances is not available.

Networking Differences

  • Flexible ENA queues are not available.

  • EC2 Instance Connect is not available.

  • The IPv6 endpoint for the instance metadata service (IMDS) is not available. The httpProtocolIpv6 field is not included in the DescribeInstances API response.

How VM Import/Export differs

VM Import/Export is different for AWS European Sovereign Cloud 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 available.

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