AWS Announces New Compute-Optimized EC2 Instances

New, "Explosive" C4 instance type from AWS

It has been a while since Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced new cloud hardware. For those unfamiliar with the cloud: yes, even cloud computing need actual hardware to run.

The update will brings new, explosive c4 compute-optimized instance type on board, and while I still cannot see this type in my AWS console, I'm sure the promised architecture behind it will be good one. Apparently AWS has ordered the specific Haswell CPU from Intel, designed just for EC2:

The new C4 instances are based on the Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (code name Haswell) processor. This custom processor, designed specifically for EC2, runs at a base speed of 2.9 GHz, and can achieve clock speeds as high as 3.5 GHz with Turbo boost. These instances are designed to deliver the highest level of processor performance on EC2.
 As said, there are no CPU benchmarks available yet, but I was quite surprised on their c3.large instance type performance and it has been so far one of my favorite ever since announcement about a year ago.

Here's the lineup (these specs are preliminary and could change a bit before launch time):
Instance NamevCPU CountRAMNetwork Performance
c4.large23.75 GiBModerate
c4.xlarge47.5 GiBModerate
c4.2xlarge815 GiBHigh
c4.4xlarge1630 GiBHigh
c4.8xlarge3660 GiB10 Gbps
I honestly cannot wait to try them out.
Edit: Just FYI, C4 instance is exclusively available for VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) users only.


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