Tag: Jeff Barr

Back in 1980, at my second professional programming job, I was working on a project that analyzed driver’s license data from a bunch of US states. At that time data of that type was generally stored in fixed-length records, with values carefully (or not) encoded into each field. Although we were given schemas for the data, we would invariably find that the developers had to resort to tricks in order to represent values that were not anticipated up front. For example, coding for someone with heterochromia, eyes of different colors. We ended up doing a full scan of the data ahead of our actual time-consuming and expensive analytics run in order to make sure that we were dealing with known…

Our customers tell me that they love AWS Lambda for many reasons. On the development side they appreciate the simple programming model and ease with which their functions can make use of other AWS services. On the operations side they benefit from the ability to build powerful applications that can respond quickly to changing usage patterns. As you might know if you are already using Lambda, your functions are run inside of a secure and isolated execution environment. The lifecycle of each environment consists of three main phases: Init, Invoke, and Shutdown. Among other things, the Init phase bootstraps the runtime for the function and runs the function’s static code. In many cases, these operations are completed within milliseconds and…

We know that you can always make great use of all available network bandwidth and network performance, and have done our best to supply it to you. Over the years, network bandwidth has grown from the 250 Mbps on the original m1 instance to 200 Gbps on the newest m6in instances. In addition to raw bandwidth, we have also introduced advanced networking features including Enhanced Networking, Elastic Network Adapters (ENAs), and (for tightly coupled HPC workloads) Elastic Fabric Adapters (EFAs). Introducing ENA Express Today we are launching ENA Express. Building on the Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol that already powers Elastic Fabric Adapters, ENA Express reduces P99 latency of traffic flows by up to 50% and P99.9 latency by up…

Today I would like to tell you about the next generation of Intel-powered general purpose, compute-optimized, and memory-optimized instances. All three of these instance families are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) running at 3.5 GHz, and are designed to support your data-intensive workloads with up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth, the highest EBS performance in EC2 (up to 80 Gbps of bandwidth and up to 350,000 IOPS), and the ability to handle up to twice as many packets per second (PPS) as earlier instances. New General Purpose (M6in/M6idn) Instances The original general purpose EC2 instance (m1.small) was launched in 2006 and was the one and only instance type for a little over a year,…