AWS dropped a handful of product announcements ahead of re:Invent 2018, including its own processor for scale-out workloads.
During Monday Night Live, Amazon Web Services (AWS) VP of global infrastructure Peter DeSantis made a slew of announcements ahead of the cloud giant’s annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas.
But the announcement that received the loudest reception from the audience was the AWS Graviton processor.
When AWS acquired Annapurna Labs in 2015, the company started to think about building a custom CPU that could scale on the cloud, DeSantis said.
The result is EC2 A1, built around Arm cores and touted as a great fit for scale-out workloads where the load can be shared across a group of smaller instances.
It’s the first time Arm processors have been made available in the cloud.
The A1 instances are available now in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) regions in on-demand, reserved instances, spot, dedicated instances, and dedicated host form, and is supported by Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Ubuntu, with AWS noting additional operating system support is on the way.
After launching C5 instances last year, and the C5d instances earlier this year with the addition of local NVMe storage, AWS on Monday added the C5n instance that boasts up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth.
