EC2 Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/ec2/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:39:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg EC2 Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/ec2/ 32 32 86113652 Amazon Will Spend Nearly A Year Of AWS Revenue On AI Investments https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/07/amazon-will-spend-nearly-a-year-of-aws-revenue-on-ai-investments/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/07/amazon-will-spend-nearly-a-year-of-aws-revenue-on-ai-investments/#comments Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:02:52 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145278 There is a bit of AI spending one-upmanship going on among the hyperscalers and cloud builders – and now the foundation model builders who are partnering with their new sugar daddies to be able to afford to build vast AI accelerator estates to push the state of the art in model capabilities and intelligence. …

Amazon Will Spend Nearly A Year Of AWS Revenue On AI Investments was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/07/amazon-will-spend-nearly-a-year-of-aws-revenue-on-ai-investments/feed/ 2 145278 AWS Pushes Bang For The Buck With Graviton 4 Instances https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/09/aws-charges-a-hefty-premium-for-graviton-4-instances/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/09/aws-charges-a-hefty-premium-for-graviton-4-instances/#comments Tue, 09 Jul 2024 20:08:43 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144382 UPDATED: Mea culpa. Due to an error in calculating the performance of the Graviton 4, we wrongly asserted that the price/performance of these chips was worse than, not better than, that of the Graviton 3. …

AWS Pushes Bang For The Buck With Graviton 4 Instances was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/09/aws-charges-a-hefty-premium-for-graviton-4-instances/feed/ 7 144382 AWS Tunes Up Compute And Network For HPC https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/12/02/aws-tunes-up-compute-and-network-for-hpc/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/12/02/aws-tunes-up-compute-and-network-for-hpc/#respond Fri, 02 Dec 2022 19:05:05 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141597 When it comes to hardware, there was not a lot of big news coming out of the Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2022 conference this week. …

AWS Tunes Up Compute And Network For HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/12/02/aws-tunes-up-compute-and-network-for-hpc/feed/ 0 141597 AWS Adds More Epyc Compute To EC2 https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/27/aws-adds-more-epyc-compute-to-ec2/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/27/aws-adds-more-epyc-compute-to-ec2/#respond Thu, 28 Mar 2019 01:05:29 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=39616 For the first decade that Amazon Web Services was in operation, its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) raw compute was available in precisely one flavor: Intel Xeon. …

AWS Adds More Epyc Compute To EC2 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/27/aws-adds-more-epyc-compute-to-ec2/feed/ 0 39616 Western Digital Drives HPC Simulation Scale On AWS https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/02/25/western-digital-drives-hpc-simulation-scale-on-aws/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/02/25/western-digital-drives-hpc-simulation-scale-on-aws/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:44:38 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=39377 Any on premises HPC cluster has its own limits of scale and throughput. …

Western Digital Drives HPC Simulation Scale On AWS was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/02/25/western-digital-drives-hpc-simulation-scale-on-aws/feed/ 1 39377 AWS Tests The Waters With Homegrown Arm Servers https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/11/27/aws-tests-the-waters-with-homegrown-arm-servers/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/11/27/aws-tests-the-waters-with-homegrown-arm-servers/#respond Tue, 27 Nov 2018 20:53:08 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=38818 What is the difference between a SmartNIC and a server processor? …

AWS Tests The Waters With Homegrown Arm Servers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/11/27/aws-tests-the-waters-with-homegrown-arm-servers/feed/ 0 38818 AWS Chases HPC With Heftier Instances https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/07/17/aws-chases-hpc-with-heftier-instances/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/07/17/aws-chases-hpc-with-heftier-instances/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:46:21 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=37942 It has been a year since Intel launched its “Skylake” Xeon SP processors, and even though the big cloud builders and hyperscalers had even earlier access to these chips, they are still only just now rolling out new hardware systems and related virtual machine instance types based on the Skylakes. …

AWS Chases HPC With Heftier Instances was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/07/17/aws-chases-hpc-with-heftier-instances/feed/ 1 37942 AWS First Up With Volta GPUs In The Cloud https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/10/26/aws-first-volta-gpus-cloud/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/10/26/aws-first-volta-gpus-cloud/#comments Thu, 26 Oct 2017 21:42:30 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=35379 It must be tough for the hyperscalers that are expanding into public cloud and the public cloud builders that also use their datacenters to run their own businesses to decide whether to hoard all of the new technologies that they can get their hands on for their own benefit, or to make money selling that capacity to others. …

AWS First Up With Volta GPUs In The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/10/26/aws-first-volta-gpus-cloud/feed/ 2 35379 CPU Virtualization In The Cloud: Getting Your Slice, And More https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/09/30/cpu-virtualization-in-the-cloud-getting-your-slice-and-more/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/09/30/cpu-virtualization-in-the-cloud-getting-your-slice-and-more/#respond Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:00:56 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=1844 In the first part in this series, we talked about the nature of processor virtualization on different systems and how this affects the underlying capacity and performance of compute in cloud infrastructure. …

CPU Virtualization In The Cloud: Getting Your Slice, And More was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/09/30/cpu-virtualization-in-the-cloud-getting-your-slice-and-more/feed/ 0 1844 CPU Virtualization: The Tech Driving Cloud Economics https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/09/28/cpu-virtualization-the-tech-driving-cloud-economics/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/09/28/cpu-virtualization-the-tech-driving-cloud-economics/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:00:36 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=1842 We can rent as much or as little compute capacity or storage or connectivity as we want, and we can get it when we want it. …

CPU Virtualization: The Tech Driving Cloud Economics was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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