Amazon NVMe Windows driver version history
The following table describes the released versions of the Amazon NVMe driver.
Package version | Driver version | Details | Release date |
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1.5.0 |
Fixed the install script to create a folder for the ebsnvme-id tool if it is not present. |
17 November 2023 |
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1.5.0 |
Added support for Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) persistent reservations for instances
running Windows Server 2016 and later. The ebsnvme-id tool
( |
31 August 2023 |
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1.4.2 |
Fixed a bug where the Amazon NVMe driver did not support instance store volumes on D3 instances. |
16 March 2023 |
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1.4.1 |
Reports Namespace Preferred Write Granularity (NPGW) for EBS volumes that support this
optional NVMe feature. For more information, see section 8.25, "Improving Performance
through I/O Size and Alignment Adherence," in the NVMe Base Specification, version 1.4 |
20 May 2022 |
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1.4.0 |
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23 November 2021 |
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1.3.2 |
Fixed issue with modifying EBS volumes actively processing IO, which may result in data corruption. Customers who do not modify online EBS volumes (for example, resizing or changing type) are not impacted. |
10 September 2019 |
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1.3.1 |
Reliability Improvements. |
21 May 2019 |
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1.3.0 |
Device optimization improvements. |
31 August 2018 |
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1.2.0 |
Performance and reliability improvements for Amazon NVMe devices on all supported instances, including bare metal instances. |
13 June 2018 |
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1.0.0 |
Amazon NVMe driver for supported instance types running Windows Server. |
12 February 2018 |
Subscribe to notifications
Amazon SNS can notify you when new versions of EC2 Windows Drivers are released. Use the following procedure to subscribe to these notifications.
To subscribe to EC2 notifications from the console
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Open the Amazon SNS console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/sns/v3/home
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In the navigation bar, change the Region to US East (N. Virginia), if necessary. You must select this Region because the SNS notifications that you are subscribing to are in this Region.
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In the navigation pane, choose Subscriptions.
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Choose Create subscription.
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In the Create subscription dialog box, do the following:
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For TopicARN, copy the following Amazon Resource Name (ARN):
arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:801119661308:ec2-windows-drivers
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For Protocol, choose
Email
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For Endpoint, type an email address that you can use to receive the notifications.
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Choose Create subscription.
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You'll receive a confirmation email. Open the email and follow the directions to complete your subscription.
Whenever new EC2 Windows drivers are released, we send notifications to subscribers. If you no longer want to receive these notifications, use the following procedure to unsubscribe.
To unsubscribe from Amazon EC2 Windows driver notification
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Open the Amazon SNS console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/sns/v3/home
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In the navigation pane, choose Subscriptions.
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Select the check box for the subscription and then choose Actions, Delete subscriptions. When prompted for confirmation, choose Delete.
To subscribe to EC2 notifications using the Amazon CLI
To subscribe to EC2 notifications with the Amazon CLI, use the following command.
aws sns subscribe --topic-arn
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--protocolYourUserName@YourDomainName.ext
To subscribe to EC2 notifications using Amazon Tools for Windows PowerShell
To subscribe to EC2 notifications with Amazon Tools for Windows PowerShell, use the following command.
Connect-SNSNotification -TopicArn
'arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:801119661308:ec2-windows-drivers'
-Protocolus-east-1
-Endpoint'YourUserName@YourDomainName.ext'