Tag: EC2

Feed: Recent Announcements. If you are an existing Amazon GuardDuty customer then you don’t need to take any action to start using this new threat detection capability to monitor your control plane operations as captured in AWS CloudTrail. If you are also a GuardDuty S3 Protection customer then this new threat detection will further inform you when EC2 instance credentials are used from another AWS account to invoke S3 data plane operations (e.g. LISTs/PUTs/GETs). S3 protection is on by default when you enable GuardDuty for the first time. If you are already using GuardDuty to protect your accounts and workloads, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, AWS customers can use ED25519 keys to prove their identity when connecting to EC2 instances using EC2 Instance Connect and EC2 Serial Console from the command line interface. EC2 Instance Connect is a simple and secure way to connect to your instances using Secure Shell (SSH). Aside from leveraging the one time use SSH keys generated each time an authorized user connects, you can also connect your existing SSH keys. In addition to RSA based keys, EC2 customers can now use ED25519 key pairs, an elliptic curve based public-key system commonly used for SSH authentication, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Today AWS announced the ability to launch Microsoft Windows Server instances up to 65% faster on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Customers can flag any Amazon Machine Image (AMI) running Microsoft Windows Server to launch faster. Once flagged, every instance launched from the AMI will automatically launch faster. Microsoft Windows Server OS launch times can be a source of costly delays while provisioning resources for mission critical workloads and recovery processes. By launching Microsoft Windows instances faster, the new functionality helps in timely provisioning of instances at scale. Whether you run spikey workloads, need faster system recovery ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces general availability of Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances. These instances are optimized to efficiently run compute-intensive, high performance computing workloads, such as computational fluid dynamics, reservoir modeling, weather simulations, and finite element analysis. Hpc6a instances offer up to 65% better price performance over comparable Amazon EC2 x86 based, compute-optimized instances. With Hpc6a instances, you can significantly lower the cost of your HPC workloads, while taking advantage of the elasticity and scalability of AWS. Hpc6a instances are powered by 96 cores of 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors  with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Today, AWS Compute Optimizer launches a new capability that makes it easier for customers to optimize their EC2 instances by leveraging multiple CPU architectures. Starting today, customers can specify both x86 and Arm as the preferred EC2 instance architecture for their EC2 instance type recommendations. When customers specify both, Compute Optimizer recommends up to 3 options selected from both x86-based and AWS Graviton-based instance types based on the best price/performance ratio for the workloads. In addition, Compute Optimizer now offers a migration effort rating, and a migration guide when it recommends Graviton instance options for existing x86-based ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Pranaya Anshu. This post is written by Carlos Manzanedo Rueda, WW SA Leader for EC2 Spot, and Brandon Wagner, Senior Software Development Engineer for EC2. This post focuses on how you can leverage recently released tools to optimize your usage of Amazon EC2 Spot Instances on Kubernetes Operations (kOps) clusters. Spot Instances let you utilize unused capacity in the AWS cloud for up to 90% off compared to On-Demand prices, and they are a great fit for fault-tolerant, containerized applications. kOps is an open source project providing a cohesive toolset for provisioning, operating, and deleting ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6g instances are now available in Middle East (Bahrain) region. The C6g instances are ideal for compute-intensive applications such as high performance computing, video encoding, gaming, and CPU-based machine learning inference acceleration. Additionally, memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6gd instances with local NVMe-based SSD storage are available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), and Europe (Paris). R6gd instances deliver up to 50% more NVMe storage GB/vCPU over comparable x86-based instances, and are ideal for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency storage, as well as for temporary storage of data such as ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6a instances are available in are available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage and network resources, M6a instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. These instances are SAP-Certified and are ideal for workloads such as web and application servers, back-end servers supporting enterprise applications (e.g. Microsoft Exchange Server and SharePoint Server, SAP Business Suite, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, customers can use Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations to reserve capacity for cluster placement groups. With cluster placement groups, customers can launch EC2 instances into logical groups within a segment of the network with high bisection bandwidth, thus getting low latency and high throughput between instances inside the cluster. Cluster placement groups are beneficial for customers with workloads that require tightly coupled node-to-node communication, such as high-performance computing (HPC) workloads or in-memory databases like SAP HANA. With the addition of On-Demand Capacity Reservations for cluster placement groups, customers can get the assurance of reserved capacity ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can now access your instance's tags from the EC2 Instance Metadata Service. Tags enable you to categorize your AWS resources in different ways, for example, by purpose, owner, or environment. This is useful when you have many resources of the same type—you can quickly identify a specific resource based on the tags that you've assigned to it. Previously, you could access your instance tags from the console or by using the describe-tags API. Now, by accessing tags from your instance metadata, you no longer need to use the DescribeInstance or DescribeTag API calls to retrieve tag ... Read More