Tag: EC2

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of the Amazon EC2 T3 instances on EC2 Dedicated Hosts, designed to provide the most cost-efficient way for customers to run their eligible Bring Your Own Licenses (BYOL) software on AWS. With T3 Dedicated Hosts, customers can run up to 4 times more instances per host than comparable EC2 general purpose Dedicated Hosts, and reduce their infrastructure footprint and license costs by up to 70%. T3 Dedicated Hosts are best suited for running BYOL software with low-to-moderate CPU utilization and eligible per-socket, per-core or per-VM software licenses including Microsoft ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 VT1 instances powered by Xilinx® Alveo™ U30 media accelerators for video transcoding. VT1 instances are AWS’s first EC2 instances that feature hardware acceleration for video transcoding and are optimized for workloads such as live broadcast, video conferencing, and just-in-time transcoding. These instances deliver up to 30% lower cost per stream than Amazon EC2 G4dn GPU-based instances and up to 60% lower cost per stream than Amazon EC2 C5 CPU-based instances. EC2 VT1 instances feature up to 8 Xilinx® Alveo™ U30 media accelerators, 192 GB of system ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3 instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Amazon EC2 D3 instances provide up to 48 TB of local HDD storage and are powered by 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Cascade Lake) Processors with a sustained all core turbo frequency of up to 3.1 GHz. D3 instances provide up to 2.5x higher networking speed, and 45% higher disk throughput compared to D2 instances. These instances are an ideal fit for workloads including distributed / clustered file systems, big data and analytics, and high ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Ben Peven. This post was authored by AWS Solutions Architects Ray Zaman, David Desroches, and Ameer Hakme. In this blog series, you will discover how to build and manage your own Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) on AWS. In this post you will learn how to deploy the popular open source parallel file system, BeeGFS, using AWS D3en and I3en EC2 instances. We will also provide a CloudFormation template to automate this BeeGFS deployment. A PVFS is a type of distributed file system that distributes file data across multiple servers and provides concurrent data access ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, Amazon EC2 I3en Instances are Now Available in Amazon Web Services regions in the Middle East (Bahrain), South Africa (Cape Town), and Europe (Milan). I3en instances offer up to 60 TB of low latency NVMe SSD instance storage and up to 50% lower cost per GB over I3 instances. I3en instances are designed for data-intensive workloads such as relational and NoSQL databases, distributed file systems, search engines, and data warehouses that require high random I/O access to large amounts of data residing on instance storage. I3en instances are powered by Amazon Web Services -custom Intel® ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon EC2 now offers increased instance bandwidth from AWS region to traffic destined towards Internet Gateway, Direct Connect and between regions for the current generation of instances. Prior to this announcement, EC2 instance network bandwidth for traffic from AWS region destined to Internet Gateway, Direct Connect and other AWS regions was up to 5 Gbps for all instances. With this launch, current generation EC2 instances that have 32 vCPUs or higher can now drive higher bandwidth of up to 50% of instance network bandwidth to these destinations. For e.g. c5n.9xlarge has an instance network bandwidth of 50 ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon EC2 now supports Hibernation for On-Demand Nitro-based instances running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 8, CentOS version 8, and Fedora version 34 onwards. Hibernation allows you to pause your EC2 Instances and resume them at a later time, rather than fully terminating and restarting them. Resuming your instance lets your applications continue from where they left off so that you don’t have to restart your OS and application from scratch. Hibernation is useful for cases where rebuilding application state is time-consuming (e.g., developer desktops) or an application’s start-up steps can be prepared in advance of ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Now on EC2 Image Builder, customers can use events to trigger an image build schedule in their event-driven architectures. Integrate your image build schedule with your events from AWS services, our SaaS partners, and custom events, via Amazon EventBridge. You can also create rules for event patterns, such as listening for a specific variable, and configure those rules to initiate image builds using EC2 Image Builder. Customers no longer have to manually trigger the build pipeline or wait for the next image build and distribution schedule. With this integration, customers can now receive notifications, such as an ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service, Amazon Time Sync Service, and Amazon VPC DNS server can now be accessed over IPv6 endpoints by instances built on the Nitro System. These local instance services have IPv6 addresses that can be accessed from your Amazon EC2 instances. These IPv6 endpoints use Unique Local Addresses (ULA); IPv6 for local instance services is useful for running software and containers in an IPv6-only single stack configuration. Additionally, if you are starting your transition to IPv6 in a dual-stack environment, the endpoints for the Instance Metadata Service, Amazon Time Sync Service, and Amazon ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Neelay Thaker. The Graviton Hackathon is now available to developers globally to build and migrate apps to run on AWS Graviton2 This week we are celebrating 15 years of Amazon EC2 live on Twitch August 23rd – 24th with keynotes and sessions from AWS leaders and experts. You can watch all the sessions on-demand later this week to learn more about innovation at Amazon EC2. As Jeff Barr noted in his blog, EC2 started as a single instance back in 2006 with the idea of providing developers on demand access to compute infrastructure and have them ... Read More