AWS ReInvent Recap Highlights New EC2 Instances, EBS Innovations
1. AWS ReInvent ReCap
Infra (EC2, EBS, Footprint)
Terence White
Enterprise Platforms Manager, LINZ
Dec 2020
2. EC2
• g4ad instances
• Radeon Pro V520 GPUs and 2nd generation EPYC processors
• Up to 40% faster than g4dn, 45% cheaper
• m5zn instances
• Intel Cascade Lake Xeon 4.5Ghz
• Faster network, more EBS bandwidth than z1d, no local NVMe
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4. EC2
• c6gn instances
• c6g with faster networking
• 4x network bandwidth, 4x packet processing, 2x EBS bandwidth
• r5b instances
• r5 with faster blockstore access
• 3x faster EBS performance, up to 60Gbps and 260k IOPS
• RDS Oracle, RDS SQL Server, SAP Hana certified
5. EC2
• d3 instances
• d2 with 30% compute boost, 2.5x network
• d = Dense storage - 2Tb HDD’s
• d3en instances
• d3 with less RAM, 14Tb HDD’s, faster network
• Cost per Tb 80% lower than d2’s
• Up to 336Tb on 12xlarge
6. EC2
• mac1.metal instances
• Intel i7 today, M1 2021
• AMIs MacOS 10.14, 10.15
• Nitro provides EBS, ENA
• On Demand and Savings Plan
• Dedicated Hosts
• 1 instance per host
• Minimum 24 hours
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8. EBS
• gp3
• SSD that’s 20% cheaper than gp2, up to 4x faster
• scale IOPS and throughput independently
• io2 Tiered Pricing
• First 32k IOPS same base price
• Second 32k IOPS 32% cheaper
9. EBS
• io2 Block Express
• 4GB/s throughput, 256k IOPS, 64Tb, 1,000 IOPS per GB
• 99.999% durability
• Sub millisecond latency
• 30% cheaper than second tier io2
• Max throughput per instance 7,500 MB/s
12. Footprint
• New Regions
• Melbourne (Q3 2022), Indonesia, Japan, Spain, India, Switzerland
• New Local Zones
• Boston, Houston, Miami, NYC, Chicago, Atlanta plus 8 more in US
• Nothing announced in NZ
• 100% renewable energy by 2025
13. Outposts
• 1U
• Graviton2 with 64vCPUs, 128GiB RAM, 4Tb NVMe
• Only 24” deep
• 2U
• Intel with 128vCPUs, 512 GiB RAM, 8Tb NVMe
• Optional accelerators like Inferentia or GPU
• Runs EC2, ECS, EKS, IoT Greengrass, Sagemaker Neo
• Can be installed by non-AWS techies