The C4 family, on average, had a 14 percent increase in integer performance over the C3 family. The c4.8xlarge VMs exhibited the largest performance improvement, with a 19 percent higher integer… Read more »
The C4 family on average had 13 percent higher floating point calculation performance than the C3 family. The c4.8xlarge VMs improved 21 percent higher on average floating point performance over the… Read more »
For the same size VMs, the C4 family showed nearly identical public and private network throughput as the C3 family, with an average increase of 2% for public network throughput and… Read more »
Amazon EC2’s C4 VMs showed an approximate 6 GB/s increase in memory throughput compared to their C3 counterparts across all tested VM sizes. Read more »
Amazon Web Services and Rackspace are warning their customers of upcoming reboots they’re taking to address a new Xen hypervisor security issue. In a premium support bulletin issued Thursday night, Amazon… Read more »
More AWS perks for business users Amazon Web Services has beefed up its identity management and access control capabilities so that businesses can more easily apply permissions to users, groups and… Read more »
Amazon Web Services pre-announced big, new C4 compute instances in November at AWS Re:invent, apparently re-announced them on January 2 in a disappearing blog post, and on Monday announced availability officially (with… Read more »
Amazon launched AWS Lambda at its re:Invent conference in November 2014, and though there were over half a dozen other cloud services also announced, Lambda stood out as the most innovative… Read more »
New, muscular Intel Haswell-based C4 instances are now available to the masses — or will be soon– depending on whether an Amazon Web Services blog post that went up, then came down, on… Read more »
On Thursday, during AWS re:Invent 2014 conference in Las Vegas, Intel announced an exclusive Haswell processor designed specifically for Amazon. The Seattle giant said the new processors power its new EC2… Read more »