AWS Boosts Cloud Computing Performance With High Memory Cluster Instances

Grazed from CRN. Author: Jack McCarthy.

Addressing the growing demand for more cloud computing power, memory and bandwidth, Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday unveiled High Memory Cluster instances. The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances will serve memory-intensive applications such as databases, in-memory analytics, caching and scientific computing.

High Memory Cluster instances are aimed at applications that require a large amount of memory on a single instance or need to use distributed memory architectures, AWS said. "This is a real workhorse instance, with a total of 88 ECU (EC2 Compute Units)," Jeff Barr, chief evangelist with Amazon Web Services, wrote in an AWS blog…

"You can use it to run applications that are hungry for lots of memory and that can take advantage of 32 Hyperthreaded cores (16 per processor)." Barr said these instances can handle large-scale in-memory analytics systems such as SAP (NYSE:SAP) HANA in the AWS cloud or serve data intensive scientific programs needing large amount of memory such as genome assembly…

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