AWS Announces Seven New Compute Services and Capabilities to Support an Even Wider Range of Workloads Next generations of Memory Optimized, Compute Optimized, and High I/O instances feature latest processors, storage technologies, and enhanced networking
F1 instances with customer-programmable FPGAs can increase performance by as much as 30x over general-purpose CPUs; preview starts today
Elastic GPUs for Amazon EC2 let customers attach workstation-quality graphics acceleration to existing Amazon EC2 instances; preview starts today
Amazon Lightsail gives developers the ability to launch powerful virtual private servers in only three clicks for a simple, low monthly price
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2016-- Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), announced the next generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Memory Optimized, Compute Optimized, and High input/output (I/O) instances, and added two new hardware acceleration options to its range of compute services. The new F1 instance is the cloud's first customer-programmable, hardware-accelerated compute instance with Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs allow customers to easily attach low-cost, professional grade graphics acceleration to Amazon EC2 instances. AWS also announced Amazon Lightsail, a new way to get started with AWS that makes it easy to spin up powerful virtual private servers (VPS) that have bundled storage and networking with simple, monthly pricing. To get started with Amazon EC2, visit https://aws.amazon.com/new/reinvent/compute/.
With ten instance families, AWS offers customers, by far, the broadest and deepest range of compute functionality to support an incredibly wide range of applications. From very low cost, burstable T2 general-purpose instances for websites and M4 instances for business applications like SAP, to our new P2 instances for machine learning and HPC applications - and everything in between - AWS delivers the right compute option for virtually any workload today, said Matt Garman, Vice President, Amazon EC2. Most companies have many diverse applications with varying requirements. They've told us having the ability to choose the right instance for the right workload allows them to have optimal price performance and move faster. Today, we expanded this range of options even further by adding a way to help customers get started quickly with Amazon Lightsail, introducing the next generation of our Memory, Compute, and Storage Optimized instance families, and delivering hardware acceleration with Elastic GPUs and FPGA-enabled F1 instances.
New Memory Optimized, Compute Optimized and High I/O instances, and larger T2 instance sizes
Optimized to deliver the right combination of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity for a wide range of applications, the next-generation of AWS's Memory Optimized, Compute Optimized, and High I/O instances include the latest processors and storage technologies. They also feature enhanced networking with AWS's Elastic Network Adapter (ENA), a custom network interface optimized to deliver high Packet Per Second (PPS) performance, consistent low latency, and low network jitter. With ENA, larger instance sizes deliver total bandwidth above 20 Gbps, and smaller instance sizes offer 10 Gpbs peak network throughput. And, new larger sizes of T2 burstable instances enable web applications requiring larger memory footprints.
Available today are two larger sizes of T2 Burstable Performance Instances, which provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst to full core performance when needed. The new t2.xlarge offers 16 GiB of memory and 4 vCPU, and the new t2.2xlarge offers 32 GiB of memory and 8 vCPU. Customers with existing T2 workloads can now scale up to the larger T2 sizes if desired.
Available today, R4 instances are designed for high performance databases, distributed memory caches, in-memory analytics, genome assembly and analysis, and other enterprise applications. They feature a larger L3 cache that is twice the size of the previous generation (R3), a new 16xlarge size that offers twice the memory as the previous generation with 488 GiB of fast, DDR4 memory, and 64 vCPUs (two times as many as the largest R3) - all for 20 percent less per GiB of RAM than the previous generation R3 instances.
Coming in early 2017, C5 instances include the next generation of the Intel Xeon Processor family (code named Skylake) with AVX 512 and up to 72 vCPUs (twice that of previous generation C4 compute-optimized instances), and 144 GiB of memory, making them the best price to compute performance of any Amazon EC2 instance. C5 instances also feature new AWS hardware acceleration that delivers three times the Amazon EBS bandwidth of C4 instances for workloads that require high amounts of IOPs. C5 instances are ideal for batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance science and engineering applications, ad serving, massively multiplayer online (MMO) gaming, and video encoding.
Coming in early 2017, I3 instances are ideal for the most demanding I/O-intensive relational databases, NoSQL databases, transactional systems, and analytics workloads. I3 instances feature twice the memory and vCPUs as the previous generation high I/O instance family (I2), and over two times the storage as the previous generation with 15.2 TB of fast, low latency locally attached storage backed by Non Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)-based SSDs. Additionally, I3 instances deliver up to nine times the IOPs as the previous generation with 3.3 million random IOPS at 4 KB block size, and offer total I/O throughput of 16 GiB per second.
F1 instances - custom FPGA hardware acceleration for all
A growing set of applications such as genomics research, financial
