Schlagwort: AWS

AMD Continues Driving High Performance Cloud Computing with the New Amazon EC2 C6a Instance

  • Ama­zon EC2 C6a ins­tances use 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sors for 15% bet­ter com­pu­te pri­ce per­for­mance over C5a ins­tances1

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announ­ced the expan­si­on of Ama­zon Web Ser­vices Inc. (AWS) AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sor-based offe­rings with the gene­ral avai­la­bi­li­ty of com­pu­te opti­mi­zed Ama­zon EC2 C6a ins­tances. Accor­ding to AWS, the C6a ins­tances offer up to 15% bet­ter com­pu­te pri­ce per­for­mance over pre­vious gene­ra­ti­on C5a ins­tances for a varie­ty of com­pu­te focu­sed workloads. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

AMD Highlights Growing Cloud Momentum With New Amazon EC2 Instances for High Performance Computing

Ama­zon EC2 Hpc6a ins­tances powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sors offer up to 65 per­cent bet­ter pri­ce-per­for­mance than simi­lar com­pu­te-opti­mi­zed Ama­zon EC2 instances

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announ­ced Ama­zon Web Ser­vices, Inc. (AWS) has expan­ded its AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sor-based offe­rings with the gene­ral avai­la­bi­li­ty of the new Ama­zon EC2 Hpc6a ins­tances, which are pur­po­se-built for high per­for­mance com­pu­ting (HPC) workloads in the cloud.

Accor­ding to AWS, Ama­zon EC2 Hpc6a ins­tances deli­ver up to 65 per­cent bet­ter pri­ce-per­for­mance com­pared to simi­lar Ama­zon EC2 ins­tances. Hpc6a will help cus­to­mers run their most com­pu­te-inten­si­ve HPC workloads like, geno­mics, com­pu­ta­tio­nal flu­id dyna­mics, wea­ther fore­cas­ting, finan­cial risk mode­ling, EDA for semi­con­duc­tor design, com­pu­ter-aided engi­nee­ring, and seis­mic ima­ging. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

High-Performance AMD EPYC™ CPUs and Radeon™ Pro GPUs Power New AWS Instance for Graphics Optimized Workloads

ꟷ 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Rade­on™ Pro GPUs power new Ama­zon EC2 G4ad Ins­tance with up to 40% bet­ter gra­phics performanceꟷ

ꟷ Ama­zon Game­Lift lever­a­ges the power of 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sors for game ser­ver hos­ting solutionꟷ

SANTA CLARA, Calif. 12/02/2020

AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announ­ced Ama­zon Web Ser­vices, Inc. (AWS) has expan­ded its AMD-based offe­rings with a new cloud ins­tance for Ama­zon Ela­s­tic Com­pu­te Cloud (Ama­zon EC2): Ama­zon EC2 G4ad ins­tances for gra­phics-opti­mi­zed workloads. With this new ins­tance, AMD now powers eight Ama­zon EC2 ins­tance fami­lies across 20 glo­bal AWS Regi­ons. AMD also announ­ced that Ama­zon Game­Lift, a ful­ly mana­ged dedi­ca­ted game ser­ver hos­ting solu­ti­on, is now pro­vi­ding its video game hos­ting cus­to­mers access to AMD EPYC pro­ces­sor-based Ama­zon EC2 C5a, M5a and R5a instances.

 “Today we build on the strong col­la­bo­ra­ti­on bet­ween AMD and AWS, which star­ted in 2017. This expan­si­on of our coope­ra­ti­on is a pro­of point of the con­tin­ued per­for­mance and capa­bi­li­ties that AMD pro­vi­des its cus­to­mers,” said For­rest Nor­rod, seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Data Cen­ter and Embedded Solu­ti­ons Group, AMD. “Ama­zon EC2 G4ad ins­tances are the first powered by both AMD EPYC CPUs and Rade­on Pro GPUs, and adding to the exis­ting EPYC pro­ces­sor-based ins­tances, they exem­pli­fy the ways in which AMD CPUs and GPUs pro­vi­de fan­ta­stic per­for­mance and price/performance for AWS cus­to­mers.”  (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Amazon EC2 instances featuring AMD EPYC processors are now available in additional regions

Pos­ted On: Aug 11, 2020 Start­ing today, Ama­zon EC2 C5a ins­tances have expan­ded avai­la­bi­li­ty to include AWS Euro­pe (Stock­holm), Asia Paci­fic (Hong Kong), Asia Paci­fic (Tokyo), Asia Paci­fic (Seo­ul), Euro­pe (Lon­don), US West (N. Cali­for­nia) and Cana­da (Cen­tral) Regi­ons. In addi­ti­on, 8xlarge and 16xlarge sizes of Ama­zon EC2 M5ad and R5ad ins­tances are now available in the (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

AWS baut Angebot mit AMD-Epyc-Server-Instanzen aus

Im ver­gan­ge­nen Novem­ber hat­te AMD im Rah­men des “Next Hori­zon” Events Ama­zon Web Ser­vices (AWS) bereits als neu­en Part­ner prä­sen­tiert, Die mit den AMD-Instan­zen M5a and R5a star­te­ten und auf einem AWS Sum­mit am 27. März in San­ta Cla­ra die zusätz­li­chen Instan­zen EC2 M5ad und R5ad vor­stell­ten und die neu­en T3a ange­kün­dig­ten, die dann wie­der­um im April star­te­ten. Alle Instan­zen sind nun in wei­te­ren Regio­nen erhält­lich. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

AMD soll ARM-CPU Seattle für Amazon entwickelt haben

Im Jahr 2012 über­rasch­te AMD mit der Bekannt­ma­chung, künf­tig auch Ser­ver-Pro­zes­so­ren ent­wi­ckeln zu wol­len, die auf der ARM-Archi­tek­tur basie­ren, also kei­ne x86-Able­ger. Erst vier Jah­re spä­ter, 2016, ver­öf­fent­lich­te AMD ein ein­zi­ges Modell, den Opte­ron A1100 mit acht Ker­nen. Inzwi­schen gibt es Gerüch­te, wie es dazu kam. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »