2 years ago

Category: Data, encryption

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ We announced the first generation AWS-designed https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/ processor in https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-instances-a1-powered-by-arm-based-aws-graviton-processors/, and followed it up with the second generation Graviton2 a https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-graviton2-powered-general-purpose-compute-optimized-memory-optimized-ec2-instances/. Today, AWS customers make use of twelve different Graviton2-powered instances including the new https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-x2gd-instances-graviton2-power-for-memory-intensive-workloads/ that are designed for memory-intensive workloads. All Graviton processors include dedicated cores & caches for each vCPU, along with additional security features courtesy of https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/; the Graviton2 processors add support for always-on memory encryption.

In addition to drawing less power, this memory delivers 50% higher bandwidth than the DDR4 memory used in the current generation of EC2 instances. On the network side, C7g instances will offer up to 30 Gbps of network bandwidth and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) support.