AWS Global Accelerator Improves Availability and Performance for Geographically Distributed Applications by Intelligently Routing Internet Traffic
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company , announced three new instance offerings for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2):
AWS announces new Amazon EC2 instances and networking enhancements from AWS #Reinvent
- A1 instances—powered by custom-designed AWS Graviton processors for scale-out workloads
- P3dn GPU instances—ideal for distributed machine learning and high performance computing applications
- C5n instances—deliver increased network bandwidth for running advanced compute-intensive workloads
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The new P3dn GPU and C5n compute optimized instances feature 100 Gbps networking throughput and enable scale-out of distributed workloads like high performance computing (HPC), machine learning training, and data analytics.
AWS also announced the availability of two new networking offerings:
- Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)—a network adapter for Amazon EC2 instances that delivers the performance of on-premises HPC clusters with AWS’s elasticity and scalability
- AWS Global Accelerator—a fully managed service that uses AWS’s global backbone and edge locations to improve the availability and performance of applications running in one or more AWS regions
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“Two of the requests we get most from customers are how can you help us keep lowering our costs for basic workloads, and how can you make it more efficient to run our demanding, scale-out, high performance computing and machine learning workloads in the cloud,” said Matt Garman, Vice President of Compute Services, AWS. “With today’s introduction of A1 instances, we’re providing customers with a cost optimized way to run distributed applications like containerized microservices. A1 instances are powered by our new custom-designed AWS Graviton processors with the Arm instruction set that leverages our expertise in building hyperscale cloud platforms for over a decade. For scale-out distributed workloads, our new P3dn instances and C5n instances offer 100 Gbps networking performance to speed distributed machine learning training and high performance computing. These new instance launches expand what’s already the industry’s most powerful and cost-effective computing platform to meet the needs of new and emerging workloads.”
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