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Category: Amazon EC2
New Utility – Opt-in to Longer Resource IDs Across All Regions
Early this year I announced that Longer EC2 Resource IDs are Now Available, and kicked off the start of a transition period that will last until early December 2016. During the transition period, you can opt in to the new resource format on a region-by-region, user-by-user basis. At the conclusion of the transition period, all […]
Run Windows Server 2016 on Amazon EC2
You can now run Windows Server 2016 on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This version of Windows Server is packed with new features including support for Docker and Windows containers. We are making it available in all AWS regions today, in four distinct forms: Windows Server 2016 Datacenter with Desktop Experience – The mainstream […]
X1 Instance Update – X1.16xlarge + More Regions
Earlier this year we made the x1.32xlarge instance available. With nearly 2 TiB of memory, this instance type is a great fit for memory-intensive big data, caching, and analytics workloads. Our customers are running the SAP HANA in-memory database, large-scale Apache Spark and Hadoop jobs, and many types of high performance computing (HPC) workloads. Today […]
New – CloudWatch Plugin for collectd
You have had the power to store your own business, application, and system metrics in Amazon CloudWatch for quite some time (see New – Custom Metrics for Amazon CloudWatch to learn more). As I wrote way back in 2011 when I introduced this feature, “You can view graphs, set alarms, and initiate automated actions based […]
New P2 Instance Type for Amazon EC2 – Up to 16 GPUs
I like to watch long-term technology and business trends and watch as they shape the products and services that I get to use and to write about. As I was preparing to write today’s post, three such trends came to mind: Moore’s Law – Coined in 1965, Moore’s Law postulates that the number of transistors […]
EC2 Reserved Instance Update – Convertible RIs and Regional Benefit
We launched EC2 Reserved Instances almost eight years ago. The model that we originated in 2009 provides you with two separate benefits: capacity reservations and a significant discount on the use of specific instances in an Availability Zone. Over time, based on customer feedback, we have refined the model and made additional options available including […]
Expanding the M4 Instance Type – New M4.16xlarge
EC2’s M4 instances offer a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources and are a good choice for many different types of applications. We launched the M4 instances last year (read The New M4 Instance Type to learn more) and gave you a choice of five sizes, from large up to 10xlarge. Today we are […]
Now Available – Amazon Linux AMI 2016.09
My colleague Sean Kelly is part of the team that produces the Amazon Linux AMI. He shared the guest post below in order to introduce you to the newest version! — Jeff; The Amazon Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux image for use on Amazon EC2. We offer new major versions of the […]