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AWS Announces New Amazon EC2 Instances
Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com (News - Alert)
company (NASDAQ:AMZN), announced a new Bare Metal instance offering for
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and introduced a new Storage
Optimized instance family (H1 instances). The new H1 Storage Optimized
instances are designed for data-intensive workloads such as MapReduce,
distributed file systems, network file systems, log or data processing,
and big data clusters. AWS also launched the next generation of General
Purpose instances, M5, which have up to 50 percent more vCPUs, 50
percent more memory, and 25 percent more network bandwidth than previous
generation M4 instances. To get started with the new Amazon EC2
instances, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/.
"AWS continues to expand and enhance what was already the cloud's
broadest and most capable compute service," said Matt Garman, Vice
President, AWS Compute Services, AWS. "Most of our customers have
diverse computing needs, and they've told us having the right instance
for the right workload really matters. Today, we expand the options we
give customers across three dimensions, introducing a brand new
capability with Bare Metal instances for the I3 High I/O family,
launching a new family of Storage Optimized instances designed for big
data workloads with H1, and providing higher performance and lower
prices for general purpose workloads with the launch of M5."
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Available today in preview, Amazon EC2 I3 Bare Metal instances are the
first AWS instances to allow customer applications to run directly on
the underlying hardware while still providing access to all the
elasticity, scalability, and security of the cloud. Designed for
workloads that are not virtualized, require specific types of
hypervisors, or have licensing models that restrict virtualization,
EC2 I3 Bare Metal instances give applications direct access to Intel (News - Alert)
Xeon E5-2686 v4 processors, 512 GiB of memory, 36 hyperthreaded cores,
and 15.2 TB of local, SSD-based NVME storage. I3 Bare Metal instances
are not simply repackaged bare metal servers-they provide all of the
flexibility and capability customers have come to expect from EC2
instances, including support for attaching Amazon Elastic Block Store
(Amazon EBS) volumes, the ability to use Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
(Amazon VPC) and security group settings, and the ability to use
Elastic IP addresses or Elastic Load Balancers. Bare Metal instances
are built on top of AWS's innovative Nitro System, which includes
AWS-engineered hardware that enables high performance and high
availability through hardware offload cards, as well secure protection
of the hardware and system software with a custom AWS Nitro security
processor that is built directly onto the motherboard. As with all
Amazon EC2 instances, customers can deploy applications to Bare Metal
instances in minutes, and scale these applications up and down in
seconds.
VMware is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and services, and
business mobility. "VMware and AWS have jointly engineered VMware Cloud
on AWS, an on-demand VMware vSphere-based service, powered by VMware
Cloud Foundation and optimized to run on Amazon EC2 Bare Metal
instances," said Mark Lohmeyer, Vice President and General Manager,
Cloud Platform Business Unit, VMware. "We are delivering a seamless
hybrid cloud to enable our mutual customers to run their
business-critical applications in a trusted VMware environment, while
taking advantage of high-performance access to AWS services. Whether our
mutual customers need on-demand capacity, want to migrate their
applications to cloud, or use cloud for disaster recovery, Amazon EC2
Bare Metal instances have made it possible for us to offer an
operationally consistent VMware environment both on premises and in AWS."
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Available today, H1 instances are a new family of Amazon EC2 Storage
Optimized instances designed for popular big data and data-intensive
workloads, including MapReduce, distributed file systems like HDFS and
MapR-FS, network file systems, log or data processing applications
like Apache Kafka, and big data clusters. Powered by 2.3 GHz Intel
Xeon E5 2686 v4 (Broadwell) processors, H1 instances provide up to 64
vCPUs and 256 GiB of DRAM. With up to 16 TB of inexpensive, magnetic
storage and Enhanced Networking that provides 25 Gbps of network
bandwidth per instance, H1 instances are ideal for processing very
large data sets. Compared to existing D2 (dense storage) instances, H1
instances provide more compute and memory per terabyte of magnetic
disk, along with increased network bandwidth. This provides an optimal
balance of resources that reduces costs for big data uses cases that
require more processing power.
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Available today, M5 instances are the next generation of Amazon EC2
General Purpose instances, powered by 2.5 GHz Intel Xeon Platinum 8000
series (Skylake-SP) processors. With Enhanced Networking, and a new
larger instance size that provides up to 96 vCPUs and 384 GiB of
memory, M5 instances have up to 50 percent more vCPUs, 50 percent more
memory, and 25 percent more network bandwidth than M4, making them
ideal for web and application servers, backend enterprise
applications, gaming servers, caching fleets, and application
development environments.
About Amazon Web Services (News - Alert)
For more than 11 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 100
fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking,
analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet
of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, and application development,
deployment, and management from 44 Availability Zones (AZs) across 16
geographic regions in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, China,
Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the UK. AWS
services are trusted by millions of active customers around the
world-including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and
leading government agencies-to power their infrastructure, make them
more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit https://aws.amazon.com.
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