After launching the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) i3 instances around two years ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made available the i3en instances, touted by the company as boasting a lower ...

Normally when you create a new virtual machine (VM) instance in EC2 in the AWS cloud, that instance uses Elastic Block Storage (EBS). EBS might best be described as persistent block storage. However, ...

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Latest Amazon EC2 instance family provides large amounts of direct attached storage for data intensive applications "As customers move every imaginable workload to AWS, we continue to provide them ...

HPC in the Cloud got a boost this week with this announcement of two updates to the Amazon EC2 instance family: the general availability of EC2 Bare Metal instances and C5D instances with local SSD ...

Amazon EC2 C7g instances powered by new AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better performance for compute-intensive workloads over current generation C6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 ...

One of the most common problems that IT pros encounter with EC2 instances is creating an instance, only to outgrow it later on. An admin might, for example, provision an instance with a certain amount ...

Amazon said Thursday that its Elastic Block Store feature is now available to all of its EC2 Web service customers. The move gives Amazon Web Services a full storage suite delivered as a service. EC2 ...

At Amazon’s re: Invent developer conference in Las Vegas today, the company’s chief technology officer Werner Vogels just announced that the company is launching two new large instance types for its ...

AWS is adding a new kind of virtual machine to its growing list of EC2 options. These new machines feature local NVMe storage, which offers significantly faster throughput than standard SSDs. These ...