AWS adds Blackwell G7 instances to WorkSpaces Core

Published Wednesday, September 30, 2026 · 10:09 PM EDT

Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances now supports Graphics G7 instances with Nvidia RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and Intel Xeon 6 processors, AWS announced. The company claims up to 2.1X better graphics-workload performance than G6 instances. Six sizes offer 1 to 8 GPUs, 8 to 192 virtual CPUs and 32 GB to 768 GB of system memory. Each GPU has 32 GB of GDDR7 memory. The instances support Linux and Windows, including bring-your-own-license, and are available in Northern Virginia, Ohio, Oregon and Spain.

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