Today, we are announcing support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) on Amazon FSx for Lustre. EFA is a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that makes it possible to run applications requiring high levels of inter-node communications at scale. GDS is a technology that creates a direct data path between local or remote storage and GPU memory. With these enhancements, Amazon FSx for Lustre with EFA/GDS support provides up to 12 times higher (up to 1200 Gbps) per-client throughput compared to the previous FSx for Lustre version. You can use FSx for Lustre to build and run the most performance demanding applications, such as deep learning training, drug discovery, financial modeling, and autonomous vehicle development.…
Month: November 2024
Time-based snapshot copy for Amazon EBS
You can now specify a desired completion duration (15 minutes to 48 hours) when you copy an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshot within or between AWS Regions and/or accounts. This will help you to meet time-based compliance and business requirements for critical workloads. For example: Testing – Distribute fresh data on a timely basis as part of your Test Data Management (TDM) plan. Development – Provide your developers with updated snapshot data on a regular and frequent basis. Disaster Recovery – Ensure that critical snapshots are copied in order to meet a Recovery Point Objective (RPO). Regardless of your use case, this new feature gives you consistent and predictable copies. This does not affect the performance or reliability…
Announcing future-dated Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
Customers use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to run every type of workload imaginable, including web hosting, big data processing, high-performance computing (HPC), virtual desktops, live event streaming, and databases. Some of these workloads are so critical that customers asked for the ability to reserve capacity for them. To help customers flexibly reserve capacity, we launched EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs) in 2018. Since then, customers have used capacity reservations (CRs) to run critical applications like hosting consumer websites, streaming lives sporting events and processing financial transactions. Today, we’re announcing the ability to get capacity for future workloads using CRs. Many customers have future events such as product launches, large migrations, or end-of-year sales events like Cyber Monday or…
AWS Weekly Roundup: 197 new launches, AI training partnership with Anthropic, and join AWS re:Invent virtually (Nov 25, 2024)
Last week, I saw an astonishing 197 new service launches from AWS. This means we are getting closer to AWS re:Invent 2024! Our News Blog team is also finalizing blog posts for re:Invent to introduce some awesome launches from service teams for your reading pleasure. The most interesting news is that we’re expanding our strategic collaboration with Anthropic as our primary training partner for development of our AWS Trainium chips. This is in addition to being their primary cloud provider for deploying Anthropic’s Claude models in Amazon Bedrock. We’ll keep pushing the boundaries of what customers can achieve with generarive AI technologies with these kinds of collaborations. Last week’s launches Here are some AWS bundled feature launches: Amazon Aurora –…