AWS Announces New Amazon EC2 Instances
November 28 2017 - 11:54PM
Business Wire
New Amazon EC2 Bare Metal instances enable customers to run
workloads directly on AWS hardware, or bring their own hypervisor
or virtualization stack; preview starts today
New Storage Optimized instance family, H1, is designed for
high-performance, big data workloads
The next generation of General Purpose instances, M5, deliver
even better compute, memory, and networking performance, powered by
the latest 2.5 GHz Intel Xeon Platinum 8000 series processors
Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an
Amazon.com 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.”
- 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 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
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