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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Intel share a passion for delivering constant innovation and value to enterprise IT organizations.
The latest Intel® Xeon® processors are utilized by AWS to provide customers with high performance and value, and the ability to choose Amazon EC2 instance types that best meet their performance needs for compute intensive, memory intensive, or IOPS intensive applications.
Intel also makes it easy for AWS customers to launch Intel software in the AWS Cloud, such as the Intel Lustre HPC file system & McAfee SaaS Endpoint Protection, by making them available on AWS Marketplace.
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The latest Intel® Xeon processors are utilized, providing customers with high performance and value, and the ability to choose Amazon EC2 instance types that best meet their performance needs for compute intensive, memory intensive, or IOPS intensive applications.
Amazon EC2 X1 instances are powered by Intel Xeon® E7 8880 (Haswell) processors.
Benefits of Intel Xeon E7 processors include:
- Intel AES-NI – Intel processors that support Intel Advanced Encryption Standard – New Instructions allow you to enable encryption for enhanced data security without paying a performance penalty.
- Intel AVX 2.0 instructions can double the floating-point performance for compute-intensive workloads over Intel® AVX, and provides additional instructions useful for compression and encryption
- Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) - Enabling faster application execution time, boosting the performance of in-memory transactional data processing.
Several other Amazon EC2 instance types include Advanced Intel features offered on Intel Xeon E5® processors in select Amazon EC2 instance types.
Benefits of Intel Xeon E5 processors include:
- Intel AES-NI – Intel processors that support Intel Advanced Encryption Standard – New Instructions allow you to enable encryption for enhanced data security without paying a performance penalty.
- Intel AVX – With Intel Advanced Vector Extensions, get dramatically better performance for highly parallel HPC workloads such as life science engineering, data mining, financial analysis, or other technical computing applications. AVX also enhances image, video, and audio processing.
- Intel Turbo Boost Technology – Get a clock rate boost of compute speed, accelerating performance for peak loads. Appropriate for traditional non-parallel workloads.
Amazon EC2 C4 instances include Intel’s latest 22nm Haswell microarchitecture with custom Intel® Xeon® v3 processors.
Benefits of Xeon v3 processors include:
- Haswell microarchitecture has better branch prediction; efficient at prefetching instructions and data; along with other improvements that can boost existing applications’ performance by 30% or more
- P state and C state control provides the ability to individually tune each cores performance and sleep states to improve application performance
- Intel® AVX2.0 instructions can double the floating-point performance for compute-intensive workloads over Intel® AVX, and provides additional instructions useful for compression and encryption
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General Purpose M4 |
Compute Optimized C4 | Storage Optimized D2 |
Memory Optimized R3 |
Memory Optimized X1 | I/O Optimized I2 |
GPU G2 |
GPU Compute P2 | Burstable T2 |
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Intel® Xeon® E5-2676 v3 |
Intel® Xeon® E5-2666 v3 |
Intel® Xeon® E5-2676 v3 |
Intel® Xeon® E5-2670 v2 |
Intel® Xeon® E7-8880 v3 | Intel® Xeon® E5-2670 v2 | Intel® Xeon® E5-2670 |
Intel® Xeon® E5-2686 v4 | Intel® Xeon® family |
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22nm Haswell |
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Equipped with the latest Intel processor technologies, AWS continuously improves compute performance, driving increased customer demand, increasing scale, lowering costs, and repeating the cycle.
Customers run High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads on Amazon EC2 to efficiently run simulations, analyze big data, manage I/O-intensive, transactional databases, run complex media rendering applications, and run enterprise software apps at scale. AWS customers of all sizes leverage Intel technology to run a large range of workloads from scientific analysis to mission-critical enterprise apps in test & development and production environments. AWS customers around the world have benefited from game-changing cost advantages by using AWS managed cloud services running on Intel Xeon processors, such as Amazon Redshift.
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Visit AWS Marketplace
AWS Marketplace is an online store that provides an easy way for developers and IT professionals to discover and use software to run in the AWS Cloud. You can find a selection of HPC software ready to run in your cluster, such as the Intel Lustre HPC file system, with just a few clicks directly from the AWS Marketplace.
