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Amazon Web Services China Regions Extends Traffic Mirroring Support on New Instance Types

Posted on: Sep 1, 2025

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Traffic Mirroring is now supported on additional instance types. Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring allows you to replicate the network traffic from EC2 instances within your VPC to security and monitoring appliances for use cases such as content inspection, threat monitoring, and troubleshooting.

With this release, VPC Traffic Mirroring can be enabled on all Nitro v4 instances. You can see the complete list of instances that support VPC Traffic Mirroring in our documentation. You can see the complete list of instances built on different Nitro system versions in our Amazon Nitro Systems documentation.

Traffic Mirroring is supported on these additional instance types in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. To learn more about VPC Traffic Mirroring and this feature, please visit our documentation.