Amazon begins offering heavy-duty C4 instances on AWS cloud platform
January 12, 2015
Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Daniel Robinson.
Amazon has made available new C4 virtual machine instances on its Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud platform, designed to offer a higher level of processor performance for customers with demanding workloads. First announced last year, the new C4 instances are being delivered from infrastructure based on a custom version of Intel’s latest Xeon E5 v3 processors, created specifically to meet the requirements of the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, according to AWS.
The new instances are available from today in seven AWS regions covering the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the firm said, with charges starting at $0.116 per hour for the smallest c4.large instance with two virtual processor cores (vCPUs) and 3.75GB of memory. This scales up to 36 vCPUs on the c4.8xlarge instance with 60GB memory, which is charged at $1.856 per hour…
That custom Intel chip is the Xeon E5-2666 v3, which features 18 cores and runs at a base speed of 2.9GHz, but can ramp as high as 3.5GHz with Intel’s Turbo Boost feature…
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