AWS News Blog

Category: Compute

New – ENA Express: Improved Network Latency and Per-Flow Performance on EC2

We know that you can always make great use of all available network bandwidth and network performance, and have done our best to supply it to you. Over the years, network bandwidth has grown from the 250 Mbps on the original m1 instance to 200 Gbps on the newest m6in instances. In addition to raw […]

New General Purpose, Compute Optimized, and Memory-Optimized Amazon EC2 Instances with Higher Packet-Processing Performance

Today I would like to tell you about the next generation of Intel-powered general purpose, compute-optimized, and memory-optimized instances. All three of these instance families are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) running at 3.5 GHz, and are designed to support your data-intensive workloads with up to 200 Gbps of network […]

New Amazon EC2 Instance Types In the Works – C7gn, R7iz, and Hpc7g

We are getting ready to launch three new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types and I am happy to be able to give you a sneak peek at them today. C7gn Instances are designed for your most demanding network-intensive workloads: network virtual appliances (firewalls, virtual routers, load balancers, and so forth), data analytics, […]

New – AWS Marketplace for Containers Now Supports Direct Deployment to Amazon EKS Clusters

Today we are announcing the extension of the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) add-ons deployment experience to include software from AWS Marketplace for Containers. Amazon EKS add-ons allow you to consistently ensure that your EKS clusters are secure and stable and reduce the amount of work that you need to do in order to install, […]

New – Amazon ECS Service Connect Enabling Easy Communication Between Microservices

Microservices architectures are a well-known software development approach to make applications composed of small independent services that communicate over well-defined application programming interfaces (APIs). Customers faced challenges when they started breaking down their monolith applications into microservices, as it required specialized networking knowledge to communicate internally with other microservices. Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) […]

AWS Week in Review – November 21, 2022

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! A new week starts, and the News Blog team is getting ready for AWS re:Invent! Many of us will be there next week and it would be great to meet […]

AWS Week in Review – November 14, 2022

It’s now just two weeks to AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, and the pace is picking up, both here on the News Blog, and throughout AWS as everyone get ready for the big event! I hope you get the chance to join us, and have shared links and other information at the bottom of this […]

AWS Week in Review – November 7, 2022

With three weeks to go until AWS re:Invent opens in Las Vegas, the AWS News Blog Team is hard at work creating blog posts to share the latest launches and previews with you. As usual, we have a strong mix of new services, new features, and a surprise or two. Last Week’s Launches Here are […]