AWS Graviton2 processors are custom-built by AWS using 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores to deliver the best price-performance for your cloud workloads running in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). They provide up to 40 percent better price-performance over comparable x86-based instances for a wide variety of workloads. Many of our customers such as Intuit, SmugMug, Snap, Formula One, and Honeycomb.io use Graviton2-based instances to run their workloads for better price-performance in Amazon EC2 for their workloads and enjoy better price-performance. Many fully-managed services including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Aurora, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor of Amazon Elasticsearch Service), and Amazon EMR have extended the benefits of Graviton2 to their customers. Recently, we also extended the benefits…
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) 3.0 is Now Available
The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) is designed to help you to build and then execute a comprehensive plan for your digital transformation. Taking advantage of AWS best practices and lessons learned from thousands of customer engagements, the AWS CAF will help you to identify and prioritize transformation opportunities, evaluate and improve your cloud readiness, and iteratively evolve the roadmaps that you follow to guide your transformation. Version 3.0 Now Available I am happy to announce the version 3.0 of the AWS CAF is now available. This version represents what we have learned since we released version 2.0, with a focus on digital transformation and an emphasis on the use of data & analytics. The framework starts by identifying…
New – Amazon EC2 R6i Memory-Optimized Instances Powered by the Latest Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
In August, we introduced the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6i instances powered by the latest generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz. Compute-optimized EC2 C6i instances were also made available last month. Today, I am happy to share that we are expanding our sixth-generation x86-based offerings to include memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6i instances. Here’s a quick recap of the advantages of the new R6i instances compared to R5 instances: A larger instance size (r6i.32xlarge) with 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory that makes it easier and more cost-efficient to consolidate workloads and scale up applications Up to 15 percent improvement in compute price/performance Up to 20 percent higher memory bandwidth Up…
Scalable, Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
Should disaster strike, business continuity can require more than just periodic data backups. A full recovery that meets the business’s recovery time objectives (RTOs) must also include the infrastructure, operating systems, applications, and configurations used to process their data. The growing threats of ransomware highlight the need to be able to perform a full point-in-time recovery. For businesses affected by a ransomware attack, restoration of data from an old, possibly manual, backup will not be sufficient. Previously, businesses have elected to provision separate, physical disaster recovery (DR) infrastructure. However, customers tell us this can be both space- and cost-prohibitive, involving capital expenditure on hardware and facilities that remain idle until called upon. The infrastructure also incurs overhead in terms of…