{"id":126204,"date":"2020-12-04T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/much-faster-ebs-storage-and-7-new-instance-types-cloudsavvy-it\/"},"modified":"2020-12-04T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T08:00:26","slug":"much-faster-ebs-storage-and-7-new-instance-types-cloudsavvy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/much-faster-ebs-storage-and-7-new-instance-types-cloudsavvy-it\/","title":{"rendered":"#Much Faster EBS Storage, And 7 New Instance Types \u2013 CloudSavvy IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35d2afce3bf\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35d2afce3bf\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/much-faster-ebs-storage-and-7-new-instance-types-cloudsavvy-it\/#EBS_Upgrades_%E2%80%93_gp3_and_io2_Block_Express\" >EBS Upgrades \u2013 gp3 and io2 Block Express<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/much-faster-ebs-storage-and-7-new-instance-types-cloudsavvy-it\/#New_Instance_Types\" >New Instance Types<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><strong>&#8220;#Much Faster EBS Storage, And 7 New Instance Types \u2013 CloudSavvy IT&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-content-area\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5269\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cloudsavvyit.com\/thumbcache\/0\/0\/0eb3564906a864c93706b30eaca199af\/p\/uploads\/2020\/06\/e601b806.png\" alt=\"AWS Logo\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the week of AWS\u2019s annual reInvent 2020 Conference, and today EC2 and EBS are getting some major upgrades, with faster storage for all instances as well as 6 new EC2 instance types.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"EBS_Upgrades_%E2%80%93_gp3_and_io2_Block_Express\"><\/span>EBS Upgrades \u2013 gp3 and io2 Block Express<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The underlying storage of EC2 has gotten a lot faster: both SSD based EBS volumes, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> purpose and provisioned IOPS, are getting upgrades. These are likely both powered by the relatively new PCIe 4.0 standard, which brings substantial improvements over prior generation SSDs.<\/p>\n<p>First, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ebs\/volume-types\/?tag=reviewgeek-20\">gp3<\/a>, which is a generational upgrade from the standard gp2 volumes that EC2 defaults to. These still cap out at 16 TB, and provide single digit millisecond latency, but now do so with 4x higher bandwidth with up to 1000 MB\/s per volume. Not only that, they are actually <em>20% cheaper<\/em> per GB than existing gp2 volumes.<\/p>\n<p>The high performance provisioned IOPS instances also get an upgrade. It\u2019s called io2 Block Express, and is just a faster drive with a max throughput of 4000 MB\/s per volume, again four times higher than before. The latency has also been improved to now be sub millisecond. The pricing is the same, but since io2 requires you to pay for \u201cprovisioned IOPS,\u201d essentially buying speed, you\u2019ll need to pay more for higher performance drives.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"New_Instance_Types\"><\/span>New Instance Types<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Alongside new storage, a bunch of new instance types were announced.<\/p>\n<p>One of the weirdest ones is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/instance-types\/mac\/?hp=r&amp;tag=reviewgeek-20\">EC2 Mac Instances<\/a>, which is exactly what you think, a Mac Mini in the cloud. Notably these aren\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le\u2019s fancy new M1 powered Mac Minis, just the much slower\u00a0Core i7 model. The point of this is to make it easy to provision and rent Mac based virtual environments for developers. There\u2019s only the one instance type,\u00a0mac1.metal, which comes with 12 cores and 32 GB of RAM.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/instance-types\/r5\/?hp=r&amp;tag=reviewgeek-20\">R5b<\/a>, a new <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of AWS\u2019s memory focused R5 database instances. The R5b instances can use gp3 and io2 block express volumes for much higher performance. Not much new but considering block storage is often a bottleneck for write-heavy operations, this will be a great upgrade for many people.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/instance-types\/c6\/?hp=r&amp;tag=reviewgeek-20\">C6g,\u00a0M6g, and R6g Instances<\/a>\u00a0are all based on AWS\u2019s ARM based Graviton2 processor and support 100 Gbps networking. They\u2019re advertised as delivering up to \u201c40% better price performance\u201d over x86 instances, though that is in \u201ca large number of applications built on open-source software utilizing Linux distributions,\u201d which is marketing speak for \u201cit\u2019s not 40% better at everything.\u201d Either way, AWS\u2019s custom silicon is very promising, and the Graviton2 chip competes well with x86 processors.<\/p>\n<p>The new <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/instance-types\/d3\/?hp=r&amp;tag=reviewgeek-20\">D3 series<\/a> delivers the highest local storage capacity in the cloud. The feature faster disk speed and up to 336 TB of space, at 80% lower cost-per-TB of storage compared to D2 instances.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/instance-types\/g4\/?hp=r#Amazon_EC2_G4dn_Instances&amp;tag=reviewgeek-20\">G4dn<\/a> is a new GPU instance designed to deliver the best price to performance for graphics and machine learning models. They\u2019re powered by up to 8 NVIDIA T4 GPUs, 96 vCPUs, 100 Gbps networking, and 1.8 TB local NVMe-based SSD storage. They\u2019re also available as bare metal instances.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, they announce <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/instance-types\/m5\/?hp=r&amp;tag=reviewgeek-20\">M5zn<\/a> instances, which are pretty basic except having a high clock up to\u00a04.5 GHz and 100 Gbps networking.\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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