Tag: EC2

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Anuneet Kumar. This post is contributed by Adam McLean – Solutions Developer at AWS and Chirill Cucereavii – Application Architect at AWS In this post, we show you how to automatically refresh the container instances in an active Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) cluster with instances built from a newly released AMI. The Amazon ECS-optimized AMI  comes prepackaged with the ECS container agent, Docker agent, and the ecs-init upstart service. We recommend that you use the Amazon ECS-optimized AMI for your container instances unless your application requires any of the following: A specific operating system Custom security and monitoring agents installed ... Read More

Feed: What's New. FSx for Lustre provides high-performance file systems that are optimized for machine learning, analytics, high performance computing, and media processing workloads. These workloads commonly require data to be presented via a fast and scalable POSIX-compliant file system interface, and commonly have input data sets that are stored on durable, long-term data stores like Amazon S3. With AWS CloudFormation you can use deployment templates to quickly and easily spin up an FSx for Lustre file system linked to your Amazon S3 bucket, provision EC2 compute resources to process data on your file system, and spin down the entire ... Read More

Feed: What's New. m5.metal instances are available in the US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (N. California and Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris, and Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo) AWS regions m5d.metal instances are available in the US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris, and Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, and Sydney) AWS regions. r5.metal instances are available in the US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (N. California and Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris, and Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, and Singapore), ... Read More

Feed: What's New. AWS VPC CNI v1.3.2 includes support for ethernet jumbo frames as a standard configuration, which is especially valuable for data transfer requirements of workloads run on the Amazon EC2 P3dn.24xlarge instance type. Amazon EKS is a highly-available, scalable, and secure Kubernetes service. Amazon EKS clusters are frequently used to run distributed machine learning to reduce total training time. Amazon EKS runs the Kubernetes management infrastructure (control plane) for you, and is certified Kubernetes conformant so you can use existing tooling and plugins from the Kubernetes community and AWS partners. Please visit our product page to learn more ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon EC2’s next generation compute optimized C5 and memory optimized R5 instances are now available in AWS China (Beijing) region operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) region operated by NWCD. The C5 and R5 instances offer the latest generation Intel® Xeon Platinum processors (formerly codenamed Skylake) and feature the Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor that aims to deliver performance indistinguishable from bare-metal performance. C5 instances deliver the best price/compute performance in the EC2 product family, offering up to a 49% improvement in price/performance compared to C4 instances. C5 instances are ideal ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for Amazon Web Services (AWS). We help APN Partners build successful AWS-based businesses, and we enable customers to easily identify specialized APN Partners that can deliver on core business objectives.To receive APN program designations such as AWS Competency, AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP), and AWS Service Delivery, organizations must undergo rigorous technical validation and assessment of their AWS solutions and practices. These designations help customers identify and choose top APN Partners that can provide value-added services and solutions. Guidance from these skilled professionals ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Anuneet Kumar. This post is contributed by Brent Langston – Sr. Developer Advocate, Amazon Container ServicesLast week, AWS announced enhanced Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) support for GPU-enabled EC2 instances. This means that now GPUs are first class resources that can be requested in your task definition, and scheduled on your cluster by ECS. Previously, to schedule a GPU workload, you had to maintain your own custom configured AMI, with a custom configured Docker runtime. You also had to use custom vCPU logic as a stand-in for assigning your GPU workloads to GPU instances ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. When upgrading a school district’s infrastructure, the administration thinks about the physical buildings as well as the IT. In 2018, Portland Public Schools began tackling both. The district is visibly renovating many of its high schools, but behind the scenes, they also migrated to the cloud, increasing both performance and capacity for their users.Travis Paakki, Sr. Director of Technology, Portland Public Schools, started around the time the district’s sizeable enterprise resource planning (ERP) install was nearing its end of life. The IT team was faced with a choice – either refresh ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Tom Wheeler. Spark ML is one of the dominant frameworks for many major machine learning algorithms, such as the Alternating Least Squares (ALS) algorithm for recommendation systems, the Principal Component Analysis algorithm, and the Random Forest algorithm. However, the complexity of configuring it optimally  means that frequently, Spark ML is underutilized.. Using native math libraries for Spark ML can help unlock the full potential of Spark ML. This article discusses how to accelerate model training speed by using native libraries for Spark ML. It also discusses why Spark ML benefits from native libraries, how to enable ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Tom Wheeler. In the last few years, IT security threats to enterprise systems have increased, which has necessitated installing log ingestion and analysis solutions in any enterprise network. This blog post illustrates how Cloudera built its own scalable solution for log ingestion and analytics using Apache Spot and Cloudera Altus. By leveraging transient workloads in the cloud, Cloudera reduced the solution’s operational costs by 50% when compared to traditional, persistent cluster approaches. At Cloudera, the Infosec team needed to build a centralized log ingestion and analytical solution to monitor all key systems in the company ... Read More