Earlier this year we made the x1.32xlarge instance available. With nearly 2 TiB of memory, this instance type is a great fit for memory-intensive big data, caching, and analytics workloads. Our customers are running the SAP HANA in-memory database, large-scale Apache Spark and Hadoop jobs, and many types of high performance computing (HPC) workloads.

Today we are making two updates to the X1 instance type:

New Instance Size – The new x1.16xlarge instance size provides another option for running smaller-footprint workloads.

– The new instance size provides another option for running smaller-footprint workloads. New Regions – The X1 instances are now available in three additional regions, bringing the total to ten.

New Instance Size

Here are the specifications for the new x1.16xlarge:

Processor: 2 x Intel™ Xeon E7 8880 v3 (Haswell) running at 2.3 GHz – 32 cores / 64 vCPUs.

Memory: 976 GiB with Single Device Data Correction (SDDC+1).

Instance Storage: 1,920 GB SSD.

Network Bandwidth: 10 Gbps.

Dedicated EBS Bandwidth: 5 Gbps (EBS Optimized at no additional cost).

Like the x1.32xlarge, this instance supports Turbo Boost 2.0 (up to 3.1 GHz), AVX 2.0, AES-NI, and TSX-NI. They are available as On-Demand Instances, Spot Instances, or Dedicated Instances; you can also purchase Reserved Instances and Dedicated Host Reservations.

New Regions

Both sizes of X1 instances are available in the following regions:

US East (N. Virginia)

US West (Oregon)

Europe (Ireland)

Europe (Frankfurt)

Asia Pacific (Tokyo)

Asia Pacific (Singapore)

Asia Pacific (Sydney)

Asia Pacific (Mumbai) – New

– New AWS GovCloud (US) – New

– New Asia Pacific (Seoul) – New

— Jeff;