AWS Compute Blog

Category: Amazon EC2

Cost Optimize your Jenkins CI/CD pipelines using EC2 Spot Instances

Author: Rajesh Kesaraju, Sr. Specialist Solution Architect, EC2 Spot Instances In this blog post, I go over using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances on continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) workloads, via the popular open-source automation server Jenkins. I also break down the steps required to adopt Spot Instances into your CI/CD pipelines for cost optimization purposes. In this blog, I explain […]

10 things you can do today to reduce AWS costs

This post is contributed by Shankar Ramachandran, SA Specialist, Cost Optimization Introduction AWS’s breadth of services and pricing options offer the flexibility to effectively manage your costs, and still keep the performance and capacity per your business requirement. While the fundamental process of cost optimization on AWS remains the same – monitor your AWS costs and usage, […]

Running Simcenter STAR-CCM+ on AWS with AWS ParallelCluster, Elastic Fabric Adapter and Amazon FSx for Lustre

Update June 27, 2022: The latest version of the scripts referenced in this blog can be found at https://cfd-on-pcluster.workshop.aws/starccm.html. This post is contributed by Anh Tran – Sr. HPC Specialized Solutions Architect Introduction AWS recently introduced many HPC services that boost the performance and scalability of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) workloads on AWS. These services […]

Estimating Amazon EC2 instance needed when migrating ERP from IBM Power Systems

This post courtesy of CK Tan, AWS, Enterprise Migration Architect – APAC Today, there are many enterprise customers who are keen on migrating their mission critical Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications from on-premises to the AWS Cloud. Some of these applications are Oracle E-Business Suite (Oracle EBS) or SAP running on IBM Power Systems. The […]

Running Cost-effective queue workers with Amazon SQS and Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

This post is contributed by Ran Sheinberg | Sr. Solutions Architect, EC2 Spot & Chad Schmutzer | Principal Developer Advocate, EC2 Spot | Twitter: @schmutze Introduction Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is used by customers to run decoupled workloads in the AWS Cloud as a best practice, in order to increase their applications’ resilience. You […]

Running Java applications on Amazon EC2 A1 instances with Amazon Corretto

This post is contributed by Jeff Underhill | EC2 Principal Business Development Manager and Arthur Petitpierre | Arm Specialist Solutions Architect   Amazon EC2 A1 instances deliver up to 45% cost savings for scale-out applications and are powered by AWS Graviton Processors that feature 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and custom silicon designed by AWS. Amazon Corretto is […]

Optimizing for cost, availability and throughput by selecting your AWS Batch allocation strategy

This post is contributed by Steve Kendrex, Senior Technical Product Manager, AWS Batch   Introduction   AWS offers a broad range of instances that are advantageous for batch workloads. The scale and provisioning speed of AWS’ compute instances allow you to get up and running at peak capacity in minutes without paying for downtime. Today, I’m […]

Leveraging Elastic Fabric Adapter to run HPC and ML Workloads on AWS Batch

Leveraging Elastic Fabric Adapter to run HPC and ML Workloads on AWS Batch  This post is contributed by  Sean Smith, Software Development Engineer II, AWS ParallelCluster & Arya Hezarkhani, Software Development Engineer II, AWS Batch and HPC   On August 2, 2019, AWS Batch announced support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA). This enables you to run highly […]

Automating Notifications Solutions Overview

Automating notifications when AMI permissions change

This post is courtesy of Ernes Taljic, Solutions Architect and Sudhanshu Malhotra, Solutions Architect This post demonstrates how to automate alert notifications when users modify the permissions of an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). You can use it as a blueprint for a wide variety of alert notifications by making simple modifications to the events that you […]