New memory-optimized instance family features 2
TB of memory and high-performing Intel processors to support
large-scale in-memory databases, big data processing, and HPC
X1 instances offer more memory than any other
SAP-certified cloud instance available today
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company
(NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the availability of X1 instances, a
new Memory Optimized instance for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2). X1 instances have 2 TB of memory – the most memory
available in any SAP-certified cloud instance available today.
Powered by four 2.3 GHz Intel Xeon E7 8880 v3 (Haswell) processors
delivering 128 vCPUs, X1 instances also offer up to 10 Gb per
second of dedicated bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon
EBS), making them ideal for running in-memory databases like SAP
HANA, big data processing engines like Apache Spark or Presto, and
high performance computing (HPC) workloads. X1 instances are
certified and available for SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Suite on HANA
(SoH), and SAP Business Warehouse on HANA (BWoH). To get started
with X1 instances, visit
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/x1/.
“Amazon EC2 provides the most comprehensive selection of
instances, offering customers, by far, the deepest compute
functionality to support virtually any workload,” said Matt Garman,
Vice President, Amazon EC2. “We've had a Memory Optimized instance
family (our R3 family) for a while that is quite popular for high
performance databases, in-memory analytics, and enterprise
applications; however, customers have increasingly asked for even
more memory to help run analytics on larger data sets with
in-memory databases, generate analytics in real time, and create
very large caches. With 2 TB of memory – 8 times the memory of any
other available Amazon EC2 instance, and more memory than any
SAP-certified cloud instance available today – X1 instances change
the game for SAP workloads in the cloud. Now, for the first time,
customers can run their most memory-intensive applications at scale
with the elasticity, flexibility, and reliability of the AWS Cloud,
rather than having to battle the complexity, cost, and lack of
agility of colo or on-premises solutions.”
AWS customers, across virtually every industry and geography,
are running SAP applications on the AWS Cloud and experiencing the
agility, scalability, security, and cost savings of the world’s
most comprehensive cloud platform for their business applications.
Earlier this week, AWS shared that GE Oil & Gas, Kellogg’s,
Brooks Brothers, Ferrara Candy Company, GPT Group, Hoya
Corporation, Lionsgate, Macmillan Publishers India, RWE Czech
Republic, Zappos.com, and Bart & Associates Inc. are among the
many customers running SAP on AWS.
Founded in 1818, Brooks Brothers is a leading retailer of
fashion wear and accessories in the United States. “Our company
already uses AWS for key business-critical SAP applications powered
by HANA on AWS," says Sahal Laher, Executive Vice President and
CIO, Brooks Brothers. “With the addition of X1 instances with 2 TB
of memory, we’ll be able to rapidly deploy new SAP solutions like
S/4HANA, Supply Chain Management (SCM/APO), as well as Fashion
Management (FMS) powered by HANA in production on AWS. We’re
looking forward to realizing the same benefits with X1 that we’ve
experienced thus far with the AWS Cloud, which has allowed us to
put greater focus on areas of our business that drive revenue.”
DNAnexus provides scientific stack and data management services,
enabling collaborative research to rapidly deliver insights from
high resolution genomics, molecular, imaging, and clinical data.
“The new X1 instances will be a powerful addition for genomic
workflows with high memory demands,” said Omar Serang, Chief Cloud
Officer, DNAnexus, Inc. “Complex tasks which require massive
computational resources and terabyte-scale memory – de novo genome
assembly, sequence scanning and matching applications, and genomic
variation annotation programs – will particularly benefit from
being able to hold their database in memory.”
Rescale offers industry leading software platforms and hardware
infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering
simulations. “Our customers are using cloud infrastructure at
increasingly large scale, at times launching tens of thousands of
CPU cores to run critical engineering simulations,” said Joris
Poort, CEO, Rescale. “Some of the engineering applications, in
particular circuit and silicon logic simulations, large acoustic
models, and electromagnetic frequency analysis, require very large
amounts of localized memory near the CPU core for optimal
performance. The new X1 instance addresses the needs of these
applications, giving teams the ability to run a wider range of
simulations, including higher fidelity models, to improve design
quality and speed up simulations to reduce product development
time.”
X1 instances are available today by customer request in the US
East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Germany),
Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific
(Singapore) Regions and will expand to additional Regions in the
coming months.
About Amazon Web Services
For 10 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over
70 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases,
analytics, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) and enterprise
applications from 33 Availability Zones (AZs) across 12 geographic
regions in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Ireland,
Japan, Korea, and Singapore. AWS services are trusted by more than
a million active customers around the world -- including the
fastest growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading
government agencies -- to power their infrastructure, make them
more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit
http://aws.amazon.com.
About Amazon
Amazon.com opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995. The
company is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets,
Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and
services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit
www.amazon.com/about.
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