A Summary of the Greatest Latest Features

AWS Re:Cap 2020 Summary — Latest Amazon Web Services Features

Last Friday, Amazon held an online conference called AWS Re:Cap to summarise all the new Amazon Web Services features presented at the end of 2020. Let’s take a look at the exciting new features!

EC2 Compute Announcement

New EC2 P4d Instances

Amazon started with announcing the new EC2 P4d instances, which can support up to 400Gbps networking speed on the cloud. These are the first instances with such a blazing fast networking speed!

But that’s not all, Amazon also announced the new P4d instances to have up to 2.5x better deep learning performance, which could mean up to 60% cost savings in using these fast and powerful instances.

For SAP use cases, Amazon now has a newer largest high memory of 24 TB.

New EC2 M5zn Instances

Further on, new EC2 M5zn instances were discussed, which provide higher processing capabilities. This is especially interesting in the case of software licensing. If you are only allowed to run the software on a specific amount of servers, this could help you save money, as you get more processing power on each M5zn service. These instances offer up to 45% better price-performance compared to the previous EC2 M5 instances.

New EC2 R5b Instances

The new EC2 R5B instances provide increased Elastic Block Store — also called EBS — performance. Technically, providing up to 7500 MB/S bandwidth and up to 260K IOPS of EBS performance. These instances are said to deliver up to 3x better price-performance compared to the previous EC2 R5 instances. These new instances are ideal for larger databases and analytics workloads.

New EC2 G4d Instances

The new G4d instances provide up to 45% better price-performance compared to the previous G4dn instances. This is now the best price-performance for graphic workloads in the cloud, offered by AWS.