Category: Compute

To date, we haven’t been very vocal about the performance that is possible when you combine the EC2 Cluster Instances and EBS. I’d like to change that today! The EC2 Cluster Instance types (CC2, CR1, CG1, HI1, and HS1) support high-performance (10 gigabit) networking between instances and Elastic Block Storage volumes (EBS). Instances of this […]

I am happy to announce that we are reducing the On-Demand and Reserved Instance prices for Amazon EC2’s M3 (Second Generation Standard) instances, effective November 1. We are lowering the On-Demand prices of M3 instances by 10%. Regardless of which region you are running M3 instances in, these price reductions will automatically be reflected in […]

Do you want to build fast, 3D applications that run in the cloud and deliver high performance 3D graphics to mobile devices, TV sets, and desktop computers? If so, you are going to love our new G2 instance type! The g2.2xlarge instance has the following specs: NVIDIA GRID (GK104 “Kepler”) GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), 1,536 […]

My colleague Chetan Dandekar brings word of a powerful enhancement to AWS CloudFormation that will make it an even better fit for large-scale corporate deployments. — Jeff; AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of AWS resources. Today, we added support for the CloudFormation APIs to […]

We ran the first EC2 Spotathon last year, and announced the results at the first re:Invent conference. We invited participants to use EC2 Spot Instances to save time and money, and to make their businesses more interesting and efficient. We awarded the Grand Prize to PiCloud and the Runner-Up Prize to Princeton Consultants, with honorable […]

We launched the first part of the EC2 Reserved Instance Modification feature last month. At that time we gave you the ability to modify the Availability Zone and the Network Platform (EC2-Classic or VPC) of your EC2 Reserved Instances. Today we are giving you the ability to change the instance type of your Linux/UNIX reservations. […]

The EC2 instances on the Amazon EC2 Instance Types menu are designed to run a wide variety of workloads. You can now launch hs1.8xlarge instances in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions using the On-Demand or Reserved Instance pricing models. You can now run your Amazon Redshift clusters, storage-intensive Hadoop jobs, and […]

Max Spevack of the AWS Kernel and Operating Systems (KaOS) team brings news of the latest Amazon Linux AMI. — Jeff; Its been another six months, so its time for a fresh release of the Amazon Linux AMI.  Today, we are pleased to announce that the Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09 is available. This release marks […]