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The new EC2 M1 Mac instances are less costly compared to AWS’ Mac1 instance that leverages Apple’s earlier Intel-based Mac mini, which costs about $1.08 per hour. 60 Percent Better Price ...
“AWS’s announcement about the retirement of EC2-Classic is an example of the on-going evolution of cloud service platforms where old architectures are being updated and replaced,” said Ed ...
AWS is adding a new kind of virtual machine to its growing list of EC2 options. These new machines feature local NVMe storage , which offers significantly faster throughput than standard SSDs.
AWS this week also announced the general availability of license-included Visual Studio software on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instances. AWS takes care of the compliant licensing for ...
When Amazon launched the AWS EC2 cloud computing service back in 2006, per-hour billing was a big deal, but that scheme also meant that you’d pay for a full hour even if you only used an ...
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 Hpc7g instances on EC2, powered by new AWS ...
AWS recently introduced global condition context keys to restrict the usage of EC2 instance credentials to the instance itself. The new keys allow the creation of policies that can limit the use of ro ...
AWS's blog walks through the Mac instances on-demand detail, but the most important takeaway is this: "EC2 Mac instances with the Apple M1 chip are already in the works and planned for 2021." ...
AWS's new FAQ for the EC2 M1 instance indicates they're currently only available in four regions, including US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore).
In preview today, AWS announced its new 6th Generation EC2 instances, led by its Arm-based Graviton2. I had analyzed many Arm-based datacenter processors, but this is different.