AWS Adds 12 Purpose Built EC2 Cloud Instances
April 10, 2014
Grazed from TomsITPro. Author: James Sullivan.
AWS is a beast that continues to grow, and this most recent expansion sees 12 new EC2 Elastic MapReduce instance types and an entirely new EC2 instance category, the R3. Amazon is also adding new regional support for several instance types. The AWS blog categorizes their new instance types into five functionality-based categories:
- General Purpose (m3.xlarge and m3.2xlarge)
- Compute-optimized (c3.xlarge, c3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge and c3.8xlarge)
- GPU (g2.2xlarge)
- Memory-optimized (cr1.8xlarge)
- Storage-optimized (i2.xlarge, i2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge and i2.8xlarge)…
The blog goes into some detail for several of the new types, detailing possible applications. First, the c3.8xlarge instance type is best suited for compute intensive applications, such as image or video processing. The c3.8xlarge totes 32 vCPUs, 60GiB of memory, 10 Gigabit connectivity and two 320GB SSDs for storage…
Read more from the source @ http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/aws-ec2-cloud-computing-instances,1-1853.html
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