New – Seventh Generation Memory-optimized Amazon EC2 Instances (R7i)

Earlier, we introduced a duo of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to our lineup: the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M7i instances and the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C7i instances. Today, I’m happy to share that we’re expanding these seventh-generation x86-based offerings to include memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R7i instances. These instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids) exclusive to AWS and will offer the highest compute performance among the comparable fourth-generation Intel processors in the cloud. The R7i instances are available in eleven sizes including two bare metal sizes (coming soon), and offer 15 percent improvement in price-performance compared to Amazon EC2 R6i instances. Amazon EC2 R7i instances are SAP Certified and are an ideal…

AWS ExecLeaders Data and Generative AI Day: Fueling Business Growth with Data and Generative AI

Join us on Thursday, October 5, 2023, for a free-to-attend online event, Data and Generative AI Day. AWS will stream the event simultaneously across multiple platforms, including LinkedIn Live and YouTube. In the realm of generative AI, the power and potential hidden within your organization’s data are more expansive than ever before. Generative AI has the capability to reshape customer interactions, elevate employee productivity, stimulate creative ideation, and drive groundbreaking innovation. However, as a forward-thinking leader, what steps are required to fully harness this data-driven potential and translate it into tangible outcomes? During this half-day event, AWS experts, partners, customers, and leading startups will provide you insights into their efforts to propel innovation using data and generative AI within the…

AWS End User Computing Innovation Day 2023: Architecting End User Computing for Change and Agility

Join us on Wednesday, September 13, for a free-to-attend online event, AWS End User Computing Innovation Day 2023. AWS will stream the event simultaneously across multiple platforms, including LinkedIn Live, Twitter, YouTube, and Twitch. Adapting to a complex landscape shaped by return-to-office mandates, pressure to migrate out of self-operated data centers, escalating security concerns, scarcity of in-house IT expertise, and constant focus on controlling expenses creates numerous challenges for IT teams responsible for providing the tools employees need to do their jobs. AWS End User Computing Innovation Day 2023 is a one-day, free virtual event designed to dissect these very challenges. Join us as we delve into how AWS End User Computing (EUC) services can be harnessed to navigate this…

AWS Application Migration Service Major Updates: Global View Import and Export from Local Disk and Additional Post-launch Actions

AWS Application Migration Service simplifies, expedites, and reduces the cost of migrating your applications to AWS. It allows you to lift and shift many physical, virtual, or cloud servers without compatibility issues, performance disruption, or long cutover windows. You can minimize time-intensive, error-prone manual processes by automating replication and conversion of your source servers from physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure to run natively on AWS by using Application Migration Service for migration. Earlier this year, we introduced major improvements, such as a server migration metrics dashboard, import and export, and additional post-launch modernization actions. Today, I’m pleased to announce three major updates to Application Migration Service. Here’s the quick summary for each feature release: Global View – You can manage large-scale…