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
SEATTLE -- (Business Wire)
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
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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
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