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AWS AWSEC2 documentation change

Service: AWSEC2 · 2026-04-10 · Documentation low

File: AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/capacity-manager.md

Summary

Updated feature descriptions for Capacity Manager, including dashboard details, cross-account/region aggregation, tag-based grouping, data exports, APIs, date selector, and metrics.

Security assessment

The changes are purely descriptive updates to existing features with no mention of security vulnerabilities, incidents, or security-specific configurations. The updates focus on functionality and usability improvements.

Diff

diff --git a/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/capacity-manager.md b/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/capacity-manager.md
index 76c9700cd..fc31d3bb9 100644
--- a//AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/capacity-manager.md
+++ b//AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/capacity-manager.md
@@ -26 +26 @@ When you enable AWS Organizations integration, you can view and analyze capacity
-  * **Centralized dashboard:** View capacity usage across all accounts and regions with new data points refreshed every hour
+  * **Dashboard** — Provides a high-level overview of all On-Demand Capacity Reservations, On-Demand and Spot usage, including key metrics to help improve your capacity posture.
@@ -28 +28 @@ When you enable AWS Organizations integration, you can view and analyze capacity
-  * **Cross-account visibility:** Organization-level view for admin accounts
+  * **Cross-account and cross-region aggregation** — View capacity usage across all member accounts in your organization from a single dashboard. Capacity Manager aggregates data from all Regions in the partition into the single Region where you have enabled Capacity Manager, including tag data. For cross-account data, Capacity Manager also provides the account name as a dimension.
@@ -30 +30 @@ When you enable AWS Organizations integration, you can view and analyze capacity
-  * **Data exports:** Export capacity data to Amazon S3
+  * **Tag-based grouping and filtering** — Activate tag keys from your Amazon EC2 resources (for example, `environment` or `team`) to use as dimensions when grouping and filtering your capacity metrics. Capacity Manager-provided tags for EC2 Auto Scaling Groups, EKS cluster names, EKS Kubernetes node pools, and Karpenter node pools are included by default. For more information, see [Managing monitored tag keys](./managing-monitored-tag-keys.html).
@@ -32 +32 @@ When you enable AWS Organizations integration, you can view and analyze capacity
-  * **APIs:** Programmatic access to capacity metrics and data
+  * **Data exports** — Export capacity data to Amazon S3 in CSV or Parquet format for further analysis and custom reporting.
@@ -34 +34 @@ When you enable AWS Organizations integration, you can view and analyze capacity
-  * **Flexible analysis:** Dynamic date selector for exploring capacity usage across different time periods from the past 90 days
+  * **APIs** — Query capacity metrics programmatically using `GetCapacityManagerMetricData` and `GetCapacityManagerMetricDimensions`.
@@ -36 +36,3 @@ When you enable AWS Organizations integration, you can view and analyze capacity
-  * **Comprehensive metrics and dimensions:** Access to more than 30 metrics across multiple measurement units (vCPUs, instances, estimated costs) with extensive filtering capabilities including Account ID, Region, Instance Family, Availability Zone, Instance Type, Platform, Tenancy, and reservation-specific dimensions
+  * **Date selector** — Analyze capacity data across date ranges from one hour to 90 days.
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+  * **30+ metrics** — Track capacity across Capacity Reservations, On-Demand Instances, and Spot Instances with over 30 metrics.