New AWS Graviton2-powered C6gn instances
deliver 100 Gbps networking performance and provide 40% better
price performance over comparable current generation x86-based
instances
New AMD-powered G4ad Graphics Processing Unit
(GPU) instances provide the industry’s best price performance for
graphics-intensive applications
New M5zn instances offer the fastest Intel Xeon
Scalable processors in the cloud with an all-core turbo frequency
of up to 4.5 GHz and up to 45% better compute performance per core
than current M5 instances
Next-generation Intel-powered D3/D3en instances
offer the highest storage capacity for local HDD storage available
in the cloud
New memory-optimized R5b instances deliver 3x
higher performance compared to same size R5 instances for Amazon
Elastic Block Store (EBS), providing the fastest block storage
performance available for Amazon EC2
Two smaller AWS Outposts form factors—1U and 2U
servers—give customers access to AWS on-premises in
space-constrained locations
AWS Local Zones expand to Boston, Houston, and
Miami, with plans to launch in 12 additional cities across the US
in 2021
Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an
Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced five new Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, two new AWS Outposts
form factors, and three new AWS Local Zones locations that extend
its lead in offering the broadest and deepest portfolio of compute
offerings in the cloud. AWS already has more compute instance types
than any other cloud provider, with instances based on the fastest
processors from Intel, cost-optimized instances with AMD
processors, the most powerful GPU instances from NVIDIA, instances
that feature up to 400 Gbps networking performance, and the only
Arm-based instances in the cloud offering customers 40% better
price performance with AWS-designed AWS Graviton2 processors. AWS
Outposts is unique in the industry as it enables customers who want
to run AWS on-premises to do so with the same Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs), tools, and hardware that they use to
run AWS in AWS’s Regions. AWS Local Zones gives customers who need
low latency infrastructure in major metropolitan areas but don’t
want to provision or maintain datacenter space in those locales the
ability to use AWS in these metropolitan areas. Today’s
announcement provides even more options for customers looking to
choose the best compute for their unique needs. To learn more about
AWS compute, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/products/compute/
- AWS Graviton2-powered C6gn instances: New AWS
Graviton2-powered, Arm-based C6gn instances deliver 100 Gbps
networking performance (4x higher than C6g) and 38 Gbps EBS
bandwidth (2x higher than C6g) for compute-intensive workloads.
They also provide 40% better price performance over comparable
current generation network-optimized x86-based instances. Today,
customers use AWS network optimized instances (e.g. C5n, M5n, R5n)
for a variety of network-intensive workloads like firewall, router,
and load-balancing appliances, video transcoding, and analytics
that can take advantage of high networking throughput and packet
rate performance. However, because these instances have a limit in
maximum packet rate, some customers need to overprovision compute
resources to drive higher packet processing power to achieve the
desired networking throughput. C6gn instances provide the best
packet processing performance on EC2, enabling customers to migrate
to C6gn and consolidate their workloads onto fewer instances or
smaller instance sizes, and reduce infrastructure costs. With the
new Amazon EC2 C6gn instances, AWS is expanding its Graviton2
portfolio to help customers meet the demands of network-intensive
workloads while lowering costs. C6gn supports Elastic Fabric
Adapter (EFA), a network interface for EC2 that makes it possible
for applications using popular HPC technologies like Message
Passing Interface (MPI) to scale to thousands of CPU cores. C6gn
instances will be available later this month in eight sizes
providing up to 64 vCPUs, 100 Gbps of network bandwidth, and 38
Gbps of EBS bandwidth. To learn more about C6gn instances visit:
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/c6
- Graphics-optimized G4ad instances powered by AMD GPUs:
New AMD-powered GPU instances offer the best price performance for
graphics-intensive applications in the cloud. Today, customers use
G4dn instances powered by NVIDIA GPUs and custom Intel CPUs for
graphics-intensive applications like remote graphics workstations,
virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), video transcoding,
photo-realistic design, and game streaming. New G4ad instances
feature AMD GPUs and CPUs to offer the lowest cost in the cloud for
graphics intensive-applications, providing up to 45% better price
performance when compared to NVIDIA GPU-based G4dn instances. G4ad
instances feature the latest AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs and 2nd
generation AMD EPYC processors and offer up to 2.4 TB of local NVMe
storage for fast data access. This enables customers to efficiently
create photo-realistic and high-resolution 3D content for movies,
games, and AR/VR experiences. With access to AMD Radeon Pro
Software for Enterprise at no additional cost, G4ad instances offer
professional-grade graphics rendering for virtual workstations.
Customers looking to use remote workstations in the cloud for
running graphics applications (e.g. ESRI ArcGIS Pro, Autodesk
Revit, Autodesk Maya, or 3D Studio Max) can use G4ad instances to
give them the flexibility to provision resources on a per-project
basis and not be limited by availability of on-premises hardware.
G4ad instances will be available in the coming days in three sizes,
with 1, 2, or 4 GPUs each. To learn more about G4ad instances
visit: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/g4
- General purpose M5zn instances powered by the fastest Intel
Xeon Scalable CPUs: New M5zn instances feature the highest
single-threaded performance (for applications that execute a series
of individual tasks sequentially) from Intel Xeon Scalable (Cascade
Lake) processors available in the cloud. Today, customers use
Amazon EC2 z1d instances when they need a high-frequency CPU (to
perform single-threaded tasks more quickly and run more jobs per
core) and local, low latency storage for workloads like electronic
design automation (EDA) and relational database applications that
require both high per-core performance and a large memory
footprint. While many customers benefit from the high compute
performance of z1d instances, they do not always fully utilize the
available memory and local storage, which results in
overprovisioning compute and leads to higher infrastructure costs.
Customers performing complex calculations and real-time analysis
for their financial, analytics, and gaming workloads have asked for
an EC2 instance that balances faster compute performance, lower
memory, and higher networking throughput. M5zn instances deliver an
all-core turbo frequency of up to 4.5 GHz, 4 GiB memory per vCPU,
100 Gbps of network bandwidth, and are available in seven sizes (up
to 48 vCPUs and 192 GiB memory). M5zn instances offer up to 45%
better per-core performance compared to M5 instances, allowing them
to right-size their instances to save on infrastructure costs and
reduce per-core software licensing. M5zn instances support Elastic
Fabric Adapter (EFA), which provides low latency, high throughput
networking, and the ability to scale up to tens of thousands of
processor cores. The combination of high per-core performance and
network throughput make M5zn instances ideal for gaming,
analytical, and simulation applications like those used by the
financial, automotive, aerospace, energy, and telecommunication
industries, where performance per-core is a bottleneck. M5zn
instances are available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio),
US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe
(Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo), with availability planned
for additional Regions soon. To get started with M5zn instances
visit: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/m5/
- Highest capacity D3/D3en storage-optimized instances:
Next-generation Intel-powered storage-optimized instances deliver
the highest capacity HDD instance storage in the cloud. Today,
customers rely on Amazon EC2 to run dense storage workloads that
require high throughput access to large quantities of data like
massively parallel processing data warehousing (e.g. Amazon
Redshift and HP Vertica), big data and analytics distributed file
systems (e.g. Hadoop and MapReduce), network file systems (e.g.
Lustre and Windows File System), and log or data processing
applications (e.g. Kafka and Elasticsearch). While customers
running these workloads on D2 instances today enjoy the available
storage per vCPU and low cost, they also want higher CPU
performance and network speed to meet the increasing performance
requirements of these dense storage workloads. At the same time,
customers running compute and storage clusters on-premises have
expressed a need for dense storage with even more storage per vCPU
at a lower cost for migrating and scaling their network and
distributed file systems on AWS. Next-generation D3 instances
deliver up to 30% better processing performance, and up to 2.5x
higher network performance over previous generation D2 instances.
D3 instances feature 2nd generation Intel Xeon (Cascade Lake)
processors with a sustained all-core frequency of 3.1 GHz, and they
offer up to 48 TB of storage, 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory, and 25
Gbps of network bandwidth. A new extended storage and high-speed
networking variant, D3en instances, provides additional HDD storage
capacity compared to D2 instances, offering 336 total TB of storage
(7x higher than D2 instances), 75 Gbps of network bandwidth (7.5x
higher than D2 instances), and up to 6.2 GiBps of disk throughput
(2x higher than D2 instances). D3en instances deliver highest
capacity local HDD storage in the cloud, an up to 80% reduction in
cost-per-TB compared to D2 instances, and let customers architect
petabyte-scale file storage clusters so they can consolidate their
high capacity big data analytical workloads. D3/D3en instances are
available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N.
California), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Ireland),
Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Paris), Europe (Sweden), Europe
(London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia
Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai),
China (Beijing), China (Ningxia), GovCloud (US East), and GovCloud
(US West). To get started with D3/D3en instances visit:
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/d3
- R5b memory-optimized instances: New memory-optimized
instances enhanced for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) deliver up
to 60 Gbps of bandwidth and 260,000 IOPS of instance-to-EBS
performance for the most demanding database workloads. Today, many
customers use R5 instances for large relational database workloads
like commerce platforms, ERP systems, and health record systems,
and rely on EBS to deliver scalable, durable, and highly available
block storage. While R5 instances offer sufficient storage
performance for many use cases, some customers have on-premises
workloads that would benefit from even more EBS performance,
including large commercial database workloads from SAP, Oracle, and
Microsoft SQL Server that have high performance storage
requirements. These customers have to scale their R5 instances to
achieve their desired EBS performance, increasing their
infrastructure and database licensing costs and reducing the
compute and memory utilization. With 60 Gbps of bandwidth and
260,000 IOPS, R5b instances increase instance-to-EBS performance by
3x compared to same-sized R5 instances. This drives significantly
increased performance for large database workloads that process
large data sets in memory. The increased instance-to-EBS
performance of R5b instances allows customers to move their storage
performance-intensive workloads like relational databases and data
analytics from on-premises data centers to AWS to realize reduced
costs and greater security, scalability, and reliability. R5b
instances also support EBS io2 Block Express volumes (in preview)
enabling customers to have a single 99.999% (five 9s) durable EBS
volume with up to 256,000 IOPS and 4,000 MB/second of throughput to
further consolidate their storage intensive workloads. Existing EC2
customers with workloads sensitive to storage performance can
consolidate their workloads on fewer R5b instances, or on smaller
instance sizes by migrating from R5 to R5b. This enables them to
reduce both infrastructure and licensing costs. R5b instances are
supported by Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for SQL Server.
This simplifies the migration path for running commercial database
applications on AWS and improves storage performance for current
RDS customers by up to 3x. R5b instances are available in US West
(Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), US East (N. Virginia), US East
(Ohio), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Europe (Frankfurt), with
availability in additional regions to follow. To get started with
R5b instances visit:
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/r5/
Smaller AWS Outposts form factors give customers access to
AWS on-premises in space-constrained locations
Before today’s announcement, AWS Outposts provided customers
with the ability to run their workloads on-premises and seamlessly
connect with the broad array of AWS services in the cloud in a form
factor that scales from one rack (roughly the size of a
refrigerator) to dozens of racks, with capacity equivalent to
hundreds or thousands of servers. Some customers also want to
extend the benefit of AWS Outposts to locations that may have
constraints on space, power, or networking, or do not need a full
rack of capacity. For example, retail stores may need to run their
sales or security systems on-premises for low latency and local
network access, but still want to aggregate inventory data and
analyze customer behavior using data lakes and machine learning
models running in an AWS Region. Other customers may have workloads
that do not require a full rack of capacity, such as a hospital’s
patient portal, a product line-monitoring workload in a factory, or
a telecommunications provider’s 5G network management application.
Also, for many of these use cases, customers may need to set up
servers across hundreds or thousands of remote locations, which can
take weeks or months. In all of these cases, customers then need to
manage applications across servers, monitor health and performance
of the applications and infrastructure, and ensure that the
applications have the latest security patches, which is
time-consuming and can impact application availability.
Two new smaller AWS Outposts form factors will allow customers
to bring the same AWS services, infrastructure, and operating
models on-premises to space-constrained locations like branch
offices, factories, hospitals, cell towers, or retail stores. AWS
Outposts will now be available in two new smaller form factors – a
1U (a 1 ¾-inch tall one rack unit server) and a 2U (a 3 ½-inch tall
two rack unit server) version – that require significantly less
power and network connectivity than the full 42-rack unit AWS
Outposts. The 1U form factor AWS Outposts is suitable for 19-inch
wide, 24-inch deep cabinets in space-constrained locations (e.g.
cell sites or some retail shops) and provides 64 vCPUs, 128 GiB
memory, and 4 TB of local NVMe storage. The 2U form factor is
suitable for standard 19-inch wide, 36-inch deep cabinets, and
provides up to 128 vCPUs, 512 GiB memory, and 8 TB of local NVMe
storage, with configurations that support accelerators like AWS
Inferentia or GPUs. Each of these smaller form factors allow
customers to run AWS services like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic
Kubernetes Services (EKS), and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
on-premises. Once AWS Outposts is connected to a customer’s
network, AWS will remotely manage the infrastructure just like the
hardware running in an AWS Region, including pushing automated
security patches and monitoring hardware health, which saves
customers time and money. As before, AWS Outposts gives customers
access to the same familiar AWS APIs, control plane, tools, and
hardware on-premises as in an AWS Region at virtually any location,
regardless of space constraints or capacity requirements. It also
seamlessly connects back to AWS for the full array of AWS services
– providing for a truly consistent hybrid experience. The smaller
AWS Outposts form factors will be available in 2021. To learn more,
visit https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/
AWS Local Zones expand to Boston, Houston, and Miami, with
plans to launch 12 additional Local Zones across the US in
2021
AWS spans 77 Availability Zones within 24 geographic regions
around the world, with announced plans for 15 more Availability
Zones and five more AWS Regions in India, Indonesia, Japan, Spain,
and Switzerland. The vast majority of customers get the necessary
performance for their applications in public AWS Regions. However,
for some of the more latency-sensitive and throughput-sensitive
workloads (e.g. remote real-time gaming, machine learning
inference, and live video streaming), customers want AWS
infrastructure closer to their end-users. These latency-sensitive
workloads have traditionally required customers to procure,
operate, and maintain IT infrastructure in their own data center or
co-location facility, adding cost and operational complexity.
Customers also had to build and run these low latency application
components with a different set of APIs and tools than the other
parts of their applications running in AWS. Prior to today,
customers could use AWS Local Zones in Los Angeles to deliver
single-digit latency access to applications for end-users located
in the Southern California area. However, customers outside of
Southern California also want this capability for end-users in
other cities across the US.
With today’s announcement, customers can now use new AWS Local
Zones in Houston, Boston, and Miami to run AWS compute, storage,
database, analytics, and machine learning services, and deliver
applications with single-digit millisecond latencies to local
end-users nearby. With an additional 12 Local Zones launching in
2021 in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Las Vegas,
Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, and
Seattle, customers will be able to deliver ultra-low latency
applications to end-users in cities across the US. AWS Local Zones
are managed and supported by AWS, meaning customers no longer need
to incur the expense or effort of procuring, operating, and
maintaining data centers or co-location facilities in various
cities to support ultra-low latency applications. AWS Local Zones
provide customers a high-bandwidth, secure connection between their
local workloads and those running in the closest AWS Region. This
gives customers the ability to use the same AWS APIs and tools to
run latency-sensitive workloads nearby to end-users, while
seamlessly connecting to the full range of services in the AWS
Region. To learn more about AWS Local Zones, visit:
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/localzones
“Whether your organization has been all-in on the cloud since
day one or is just beginning to move workloads to the cloud, all
customers want to optimize for price performance,” said Dave Brown,
Vice President, EC2, AWS. “As customers bring more and more
workloads to the cloud, AWS continues to expand the industry’s
leading compute portfolio to meet their increasingly diverse needs.
With the new EC2 instance types, AWS Outposts and AWS Local Zones
options we’re introducing today, we’re providing customers with an
unmatched breadth and depth of capabilities to help them innovate
more cost-effectively, with the right compute for the right
job.”
Datadog, Inc. is the monitoring and security platform for cloud
applications. “We’re excited about the M5zn instances and the
impact they can have on our high throughput compute and network
intensive applications,” said Rob Boll, Director, Runtime
Platforms, at Datadog. “Many of our compute intensive workloads
will benefit from the improved performance per core, and with 100
Gbps networking throughput, we’ll be able to pack workloads more
efficiently onto fewer nodes. We expect to see significant
infrastructure cost savings as we move our larger workloads over to
M5zn instances.”
Ubitus is a cloud gaming technology leader. Through their
platforms, users can enjoy a AAA gaming experience on any device
including smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, smart TVs, and
computers as long as they’re connected to a broadband network. “We
used AWS to partner with 505 Games to bring Control Ultimate
Edition to a highly popular portable gaming device,” said Wesley
Kuo, CEO of Ubitus. “With the new EC2 G4ad instances we have a
lower cost structure, which will enable us to bring more games like
Control Ultimate Edition to the mobile users globally.”
Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service
with over 190 million paid memberships in over 190 countries
enjoying TV series, documentaries, and feature films across a wide
variety of genres and languages. “We have many artists and content
creators who can benefit from bringing the on-premises
infrastructure they use day-to-day to the cloud. However, every
second counts, especially when it comes to the time it takes to
compile and render 3D models and animations. For some time, we have
wanted to move these artists' workstations to AWS in order to take
advantage of the performance, elasticity, and cost benefits of the
cloud. However, due to the interactive nature of these
applications, our artists need very low latency access to their
workstations to have a good working experience," said Nils
Pommerien, Director, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Netflix.
“AWS Local Zones, which bring cloud resources closer to our
artists, have been a game-changer for these applications. By taking
advantage of access to AWS's highly performant and cost-effective
compute resources, we have been able to migrate portions of our
content creation process to AWS Local Zones, while ensuring an even
better experience for artists.”
Mindbody is the leading technology platform for the fitness,
wellness, and beauty industries. “We have a portfolio of
interdependent applications running in our existing on-premises
data centers. We have been looking to move these workloads to the
public cloud for some time. However, it is daunting to migrate such
complex, interdependent applications to the cloud at the same time
while ensuring a seamless experience for our end users," said John
Strong, Senior Director of Production Engineering, Mindbody. “AWS
Local Zones have solved a significant problem for us here. We are
using Local Zones to migrate our complex, legacy on-premises
applications to AWS without an expensive revamp of our
architecture. With a Direct Connect to Local Zones, we are able to
establish a hybrid environment that provides ultra-low latency
communication between applications running in the Local Zone and
our on-premises installations. In turn, this has enabled us to
migrate applications incrementally, simplifying our migrations
drastically while reducing any business risk with on-going hybrid
deployments.”
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