New instance types soon from AWS: next-gen C5, an FPGA instance, more GPU options

GP2 · 2016-12-01, 00:00

More details at this page.

The C5 (compute-intensive) instances aren't available yet. They will be Xeon Skylake with AVX-512 (sound familiar?). Not sure if this will be a custom chip made to Amazon's specs like the C4's are. For the C4 they removed stuff like thermal throttling from the chip, because Amazon themselves ensure a suitable ambient temperature in their data center.

The "elastic GPUs" also aren't available yet, but more details here.

The new F1 instance (FPGA) is available already, as a developer preview in the us-east-1 (N. Virginia) region. More details here. I wonder if this could be applicable to LL testing somehow... it would be quite a project.

Also some others, including an R4 instance type as the successor to the R3 (which was the slower counterpart to the C4 series but with a lot more memory).

Gordon · 2016-12-19, 22:31

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Originally Posted by GP2

More details at this page.

The C5 (compute-intensive) instances aren't available yet. They will be Xeon Skylake with AVX-512 (sound familiar?). Not sure if this will be a custom chip made to Amazon's specs like the C4's are. For the C4 they removed stuff like thermal throttling from the chip, because Amazon themselves ensure a suitable ambient temperature in their data center.

The "elastic GPUs" also aren't available yet, but more details here.

The new F1 instance (FPGA) is available already, as a developer preview in the us-east-1 (N. Virginia) region. More details here. I wonder if this could be applicable to LL testing somehow... it would be quite a project.

Also some others, including an R4 instance type as the successor to the R3 (which was the slower counterpart to the C4 series but with a lot more memory).

Don't think I'll take up the new p2.16xlarge anytime soon, just under $185/hour

Mark Rose · 2016-12-19, 23:58

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Originally Posted by Gordon

Don't think I'll take up the new p2.16xlarge anytime soon, just under $185/hour

They're $14.40/hr in us-east-1.

GP2 · 2017-08-05, 08:52

Here's a "deep dive" Powerpoint presentation from Amazon about their F1 instances (FPGA).

Currently this recently-introduced instance type is only available in us-east-1 and seems fairly pricey. The f1.2xlarge with one Xilinx UltraScale+ VU9P FPGA, four Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) cores, and 122 GiB of memory costs about $0.40 /hour at spot prices.

ewmayer · 2017-08-05, 22:14

Still no word on when the C5s will come online, it seems.

moebius · 2020-11-06, 11:19

siliconAngle article from November 02 2020
Amazon brings Nvidia’s powerful A100 GPUs to its cloud with its P4d instances

Mark Rose · 2020-11-07, 21:24

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Originally Posted by moebius

siliconAngle article from November 02 2020
Amazon brings Nvidia’s powerful A100 GPUs to its cloud with its P4d instances

The only spot instances available are the p4d.24xlarge with 8 A100 GPUs at $9.83/hour in us-east-1 and us-west-2.

moebius · 2020-11-07, 21:48

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Originally Posted by Mark Rose

The only spot instances available are the p4d.24xlarge with 8 A100 GPUs at $9.83/hour in us-east-1 and us-west-2.

Thank you for the information.

moebius · 2020-11-16, 08:21

Did they come? Otherwise they should come to me.

https://inthecloud.withgoogle.com/nv...-20/dl-cd.html

2016-12-01, 00:00	#1
GP2 Sep 2003 A1E₁₆ Posts	New instance types soon from AWS: next-gen C5, an FPGA instance, more GPU options More details at this page. The C5 (compute-intensive) instances aren't available yet. They will be Xeon Skylake with AVX-512 (sound familiar?). Not sure if this will be a custom chip made to Amazon's specs like the C4's are. For the C4 they removed stuff like thermal throttling from the chip, because Amazon themselves ensure a suitable ambient temperature in their data center. The "elastic GPUs" also aren't available yet, but more details here. The new F1 instance (FPGA) is available already, as a developer preview in the us-east-1 (N. Virginia) region. More details here. I wonder if this could be applicable to LL testing somehow... it would be quite a project. Also some others, including an R4 instance type as the successor to the R3 (which was the slower counterpart to the C4 series but with a lot more memory).

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2017-08-05, 08:52	#4
GP2 Sep 2003 2×5×7×37 Posts	Here's a "deep dive" Powerpoint presentation from Amazon about their F1 instances (FPGA). Currently this recently-introduced instance type is only available in us-east-1 and seems fairly pricey. The f1.2xlarge with one Xilinx UltraScale+ VU9P FPGA, four Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) cores, and 122 GiB of memory costs about $0.40 /hour at spot prices.

2017-08-05, 22:14	#5
ewmayer ∂²ω=0 Sep 2002 República de Califo 26754₈ Posts	Still no word on when the C5s will come online, it seems.

2020-11-06, 11:19	#6
moebius Jul 2009 Germany 3·241 Posts	siliconAngle article from November 02 2020 Amazon brings Nvidia’s powerful A100 GPUs to its cloud with its P4d instances

2020-11-16, 08:21	#9
moebius Jul 2009 Germany 723₁₀ Posts	Did they come? Otherwise they should come to me. https://inthecloud.withgoogle.com/nv...-20/dl-cd.html