On the 20th Anniversary, we recognize how AWS has continued to push the boundaries of what cloud computing can deliver, building custom silicon for general-purpose and AI workloads and expanding EC2 into new form factors and deployment models that our customers in 2006 could not have imagined.

Living in the Netherlands, I spend a fair amount of time on trains, and that is usually where I catch up on what the builder community is writing. Until now, that meant opening a laptop or squinting at a browser tab on my phone. This week I found myself scrolling through trending articles and checking […]

Synology APM 2.0 adds support for Amazon EC2, Azure VM, Proxmox, and Google Workspace, plus volume encryption and cross-platform cloud recovery

AWS is announcing starting today, Amazon EC2 I7ie instances are now available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, I7ie instances are powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance over existing I3en instances. I7ie instances offer up to 120TB local NVMe storage density for storage optimized instances and offer up to twice as many vCPUs and memory compared to prior generation instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7ie instances deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and 65% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I3en instances. page.

AWS introduces new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite Rapids), available only on AWS. T8i instances are among the lowest-cost EC2 instances and deliver up to 30% better price performance over previous generation T3 instances.

Accelerate genomics, multimedia, big data, networking, and more with up to 192 vCPUs, 8 FPGAs, 2TiB memory, and 100Gbps network – outpacing CPUs by up to 95x.

Accelerate genomics, multimedia, big data, networking, and more with up to 192 vCPUs, 8 FPGAs, 2TiB memory, and 100Gbps network – outpacing CPUs by up to 95x.

Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager is a new centralized solution that consolidates capacity monitoring and management across all AWS accounts and regions, eliminating operational overhead and providing optimization opportunities for EC2 infrastructure at scale.

AWS is announcing starting today, Amazon EC2 I7ie instances are now available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, I7ie instances are powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance over existing I3en instances. I7ie instances offer up to 120TB local NVMe storage density for storage optimized instances and offer up to twice as many vCPUs and memory compared to prior generation instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7ie instances deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and 65% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I3en instances. I7ie are high density storage optimized instances, ideal for workloads requiring fast local storage with high random read/write performance at very low latency consistency to access large data sets. These instances are available in 9 different virtual sizes and deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth and 60Gbps of bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). To learn more, visit the I7ie instanceshttps://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/i7ie/.

Today, AWS eliminated the networking bandwidth burst duration limitations for Amazon EC2 I7i and I8g instances on sizes larger than 4xlarge. This update doubles the Network Bandwidth available at all times for i7i and i8g instances on sizes larger than 4xlarge. Previously, these instance sizes had a baseline bandwidth and used a network I/O credit mechanism to https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ec2/latest/instancetypes/so.html#so_network on a best effort basis. Today these instance sizes can sustain their maximum performance indefinitely. With this improvement, customers running memory and network intensive workloads on larger instance sizes can now consistently maintain their maximum network bandwidth without interruption, delivering more predictable performance for applications that require sustained high-throughput network connectivity. This change applies only to instance sizes larger than 4xlarge, while smaller instances will continue to operate with their existing baseline and burst bandwidth configurations. Amazon EC2 I7i and I8g instances are designed for I/O intensive workloads that require rapid data access and real-time latency from storage. These instances excel at handling transactional, real-time, distributed databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hbase and NoSQL solutions like Aerospike, MongoDB, ClickHouse, and Apache Druid. They're also optimized for real-time analytics platforms such as Apache Spark, data lakehouse, and AI LLM pre-processing for training. These instances have up to 1.5 TiB of memory, and 45 TB local instance storage. They deliver up to 100 Gbps of network performance bandwidth, and 60 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). To learn more, see Amazon EC2 https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/i7i/ and https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/i8g/ instances. To get started, see https://console.aws.amazon.com/, https://aws.amazon.com/cli/, and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/EC2.html.