Tag: AWS

The new AWS EC2 M5n and R5n instances now support up to 100Gbps networking including bandwidth increases across the range of instance sizes

New AWS EC2 T3a instances are now available with AMD EPYC CPUs offering a ten percent discount over Intel-based T3 burstable instance offerings

New from Amazon AWS are five new Intel Xeon Scalable bare metal instances that offer sustained turbo speeds of between 3.1GHz and 4.0GHz and plenty of RAM

Our take on the AWS A1 Arm CPU instance announcement. We put performance numbers and context around the AWS Graviton processors to show where it fits in the ecosystem and the implications

We thoroughly evaluate the claims made by Bloomberg in their Supermicro China tampering stories and found them likely impossible or implausible at best. We take stock of sources and discuss the next steps calling for formal SEC and shareholder investigations of Bloomberg.

At VMworld 2018, Amazon Relational Database Service on VMware was announced which will allow VMware customers to use RDS services on-premise or in the AWS cloud.

New Amazon AWS Z1d EC2 frequency optimized instances use Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs with high clock speeds for the EDA, HPC, and relational database hosting markets

The new AWS R5 EC2 instances have up to 768GB and 96 vCPUs per instance, 25Gbps network bandwidth, and 3.1GHz Skylake-SP Intel Xeon Platinum all core turbo speeds. The AWS EC2 R5 instances are for in-memory analytics, and similar applications

Amazon AWS EC2 H1 instances are launched offering up to 16TB of local hard drive storage and more compute for big data analytics cluster workloads

At AWS Re:Invent the company is making a number of key announcements about new instances as expected. Aside from highlighting the new bare metal...