AWS still offers the greatest variety of instance types, but its top rivals have differentiating features of their own ...

At the re:Invent customer conference in Las Vegas today, AWS announced two new instance types designed for specific kinds of applications. The first is a generalized EC2 instance designed for ...

Cloud instances, in 475 flavors Now at pains to explain just how far we have come since the turn of the millennium, AWS now offers some 475 different ‘instance’ types.

The new UltraServer instance, dubbed Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers, has either 36 or 72 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs within one ...

Normally when you create a new virtual machine (VM) instance in EC2 in the AWS cloud, that instance uses Elastic Block Storage (EBS). EBS might best be described as persistent block storage. However, ...

New Amazon EC2 Trn2 instances, featuring AWS’s newest Trainium2 AI chip, offer 30-40% better price performance than the current generation of GPU-based EC2 instances New Trn2 UltraServers use ...

At AWS's re:Invent conference yesterday, Amazon Web Servicesannounced three EC2 instances powered by new Arm-based chips designed by AWS. AWS said its - Read more from Inside HPC & AI News.

The new AWS instance types indicate that public clouds recognize this problem and are attempting to address it by offering tailored solutions for on-prem environments.

Partners say the many new virtual machine instance types will allow them to better optimize customer workloads, delivering greater efficiency and affordability.

AWS has reduced the prices of some of its EC2 Nvidia GPU-accelerated instances to attract more AI workloads while competing with rivals, such as Microsoft and Google, as demand for GPUs and the ...