Translated from 日本語 • View original This is a pre-sales shell.
This time, I participated in AWS re:Invent 2018 with engineer Nishida.
We hope to be able to describe the actual tests and introductions, focusing on the newly announced services.
First of all, EC2's A1 series was announced at Monday Night Live.
Although serverless environments are attracting attention, the evolution of EC2 should not be overlooked.
EC2 A1 Instances
This A1 series will be based on ARM and will be a CPU customized by Annapurna Labs.
Annapurna Labs is an Israeli semiconductor company acquired by Amazon in 2015, and announced last year (2017) that it will speed up the network with ASICs.
It seems that it is the company that developed Nitro, the new platform of EC2. If you create a dedicated CPU, where will Amazon go?
However, since this CPU is ARM-based, the application will likely need to be compiled for the ARM environment.
EC2 M5A/R5A Instances
You can also choose m5a and r5a instances with AMD CPUs.
Selectable CPU
This allows EC2 to choose from three CPU environments.
Unfortunately, neither a1 nor m5a/r5a instances can be selected in the Tokyo region yet.
While waiting for it to be released to the Tokyo region, we will test it in other regions.
Note that in regions where a1 instances are available, the following is added to the Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM) options:
64-bit (x86), 64-bit (Arm)
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Afterword
There is still a lot of information on the new service, so I will upload it sequentially.