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Amazon Will Spend Nearly A Year Of AWS Revenue On AI Investments

February 7, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

There is a bit of AI spending one-upmanship going on among the hyperscalers and cloud builders – and now the foundation model builders who are partnering with their new sugar daddies to be able to afford to build vast AI accelerator estates to push the state of the art in model capabilities and intelligence. …

Cloud

AWS Pushes Bang For The Buck With Graviton 4 Instances

July 9, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

UPDATED: Mea culpa. Due to an error in calculating the performance of the Graviton 4, we wrongly asserted that the price/performance of these chips was worse than, not better than, that of the Graviton 3. …

Compute

AWS Tunes Up Compute And Network For HPC

December 2, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

When it comes to hardware, there was not a lot of big news coming out of the Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2022 conference this week. …

Cloud

AWS Adds More Epyc Compute To EC2

March 27, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

For the first decade that Amazon Web Services was in operation, its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) raw compute was available in precisely one flavor: Intel Xeon. …

Cloud

Western Digital Drives HPC Simulation Scale On AWS

February 25, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Any on premises HPC cluster has its own limits of scale and throughput. …

Cloud

AWS Tests The Waters With Homegrown Arm Servers

November 27, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

What is the difference between a SmartNIC and a server processor? …

Cloud

AWS Chases HPC With Heftier Instances

July 17, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

It has been a year since Intel launched its “Skylake” Xeon SP processors, and even though the big cloud builders and hyperscalers had even earlier access to these chips, they are still only just now rolling out new hardware systems and related virtual machine instance types based on the Skylakes. …

Cloud

AWS First Up With Volta GPUs In The Cloud

October 26, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

It must be tough for the hyperscalers that are expanding into public cloud and the public cloud builders that also use their datacenters to run their own businesses to decide whether to hoard all of the new technologies that they can get their hands on for their own benefit, or to make money selling that capacity to others. …

Cloud

CPU Virtualization In The Cloud: Getting Your Slice, And More

September 30, 2015 Mark Funk 0

In the first part in this series, we talked about the nature of processor virtualization on different systems and how this affects the underlying capacity and performance of compute in cloud infrastructure. …

Cloud

CPU Virtualization: The Tech Driving Cloud Economics

September 28, 2015 Mark Funk 0

We can rent as much or as little compute capacity or storage or connectivity as we want, and we can get it when we want it. …

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