Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com. The most central and well-known of these services are Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. The service is advertised as providing a large computing capacity (potentially many servers) much faster and cheaper than building a physical server farm.
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’s C4 family displayed on average a 15.6% improvement in processing performance as a result of higher integer, floating point and memory throughput performance. Read more »
Amazon is making efforts to provide highly predictable performance outputs and to match its C4 family’s price-performance with that of its earlier generation C3 family. Read more »
Although having a laugh at so-called “enterprise clouds” is a respected pastime in some circles, there’s an argument to be made that they do serve a legitimate purpose. Large-scale public clouds… Read more »
The notion that pay-as-you-go cloud computing will eliminate shelfware — paid-for but unused computing resources — has always been suspect. Last year I wrote that the proliferation of unused compute instances resulting in… Read more »
New Relic has named John Gray, a former long-time channel exec for Oracle, as its new SVP of business development. Gray, who was most recently at LivePerson, brings long experience dealing… Read more »
On Monday, Amazon wanted us to know that its staff worked day and night to avert planned reboots of cloud instances and updated a blog post to flag that information. But it… Read more »