What's new at AWS π’
π Newly supported instance types includes:
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ΎοΈ GPU-based instances: g5, g5g, g6, gr6, p4d, p4de, p5
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ΎοΈ Compute optimized instances: c7i-flex, c6id, c8g
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ΎοΈ Memory optimized instances:r8g, x8g
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ΎοΈ Storage optimized instances:i4i
π AWS Graviton4 processors offers:
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ΎοΈ 50% more cores
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ΎοΈ % more memory bandwidth
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ΎοΈ Up to 60% better performance than AWS Graviton2.
π The 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors(C7i-flex Instances) offer 5% better price/performance compared to c7i instances.
π What is AWS Compute Optimizer:
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It delivers resource recommendations for various resources to optimize cost and improve performance.
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It uses machine learning technology to analyze historical utilization metrics and resource configuration data before delivers recommendation.
π Resource configuration includes:
1οΈβ£ EC2 Instance types and ASG
2οΈβ£ Amazon EBS volume configurations
3οΈβ£ Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate task sizes
4οΈβ£ Amazon RDS DB instance classes
5οΈβ£ Lambda function memory size
6οΈβ£ And commercial software licenses
π Key note for Pricing:
πΈ Default Compute Optimizer:
πΈ It analyses the CloudWatch metrics for Last 14 days
πΈ No additional fee for Compute optimizer service.
πΈ Enhanced Compute Optimizer:
πΈ It helps to analyse 3 months history of performance metric.
πΈ Customers can run monthly or quarterly.
πΈ Pricing $0.0003360215 per resource per hour /month running.
π Explore more about Compute Optimizer:
https://aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer/getting-started/