High Demand of AWS C3 Instances Posing Serious Overload Impact on Cloud Computing Resources

Grazed from GreatResponder.  Author: Maria Dehn.

The Amazon web services announced its cutting edge cloud computing instances C3 backed by SSD storage and premium processors a few weeks back. It is seeing an unprecedented demand across all domains and regions, which is exerting a heavy pressure on the available cloud resources of the service.

Greatresponder.com – This was informed through a blog post by Jeff Barr an official of the AWS cloud computing services associated with the recently announced cutting edge instances called C3. He writes in his blog that since its launch, C3 instances have been seeing amazingly high demand for modern cloud servers, which are backed by the modern solid state disk SSD storage and premium processors 2.8 GHz Intel E5-2680 v2 ‘Ivy Bridge’ and other latest technologies. This unprecedented demand is putting extra pressure on the existing resources available for this service – sometimes, they are proving to be insufficient to the demands of the customers across all regions…


It was further informed that AWS is working on war footing basis to enhance its cloud computing resources to fulfill this huge demand. It was informed that AWS is trying to manage the resources in-house, which is not a good news for vendors like Dell and HP. Jeff wrote in his blog, “In the face of this growth, we have enlarged, accelerated, and expedited our orders for additional capacity across all Regions.  We are working non-stop to get it in-house, and hope to be back to more normal levels of capacity in the next couple of weeks”…

Read more from the source @ http://greatresponder.com/2013/12/14/aws-c3-cloud-computing/