AWS C3 shortage signals thirst for cloud computing performance
December 17, 2013
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Beth Pariseau.
Amazon Web Services Inc. awaits new shipments of hardware for its recently launched C3 instances as the demand for cloud computing performance in its Elastic Compute Cloud exceeds supply. The shortage was first noted in a blog post last week by Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) chief evangelist, Jeff Barr, who wrote that it took just two weeks for C3 use in its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to exceed the level that the former fastest-growing instance type achieved in 22 weeks.
"The important takeaway here is the thirst for performance on AWS," said Carl Brooks, analyst with Boston-based 451 Research. The new C3 instances were revealed at the AWS re:Invent conference this year. They provide faster processors based on Intel Corp.’s 2.8 GHz E5-2680 version 2 "Ivy Bridge" technology, double the memory per vCPU of the previous C1 and CC2 lines of instances, as well as solid-state-drive-based instance storage…
A c3.large instance, the smallest in the line, offers 3.75 GB of RAM with two vCPUs and two 16 GB solid-state drives for an on-demand price of 15 cents per hour…
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