News Amazon Web Services introduces an 896-core instance — prices range from $150 to $400 per hour

[Admin]

AWS ups the ante once more.

Amazon Web Services introduces an 896-core instance — prices range from $150 to $400 per hour : Read more

 

[PEnns]

Can those be used for crypto mining??

If yes, I can imagine some crypto junkies hacking and remotely controlling those....

 

[HaninTH]

Can those be used for crypto mining??

If yes, I can imagine some crypto junkies hacking and remotely controlling those....

You don't think they have performance monitoring and other sniffers looking for exactly this kind of thing at this scale? Shirley they have systems in place to limit things because of the power usage needed with that many cores and the impact it would impose on the clusters and only open it up when a paying customer signs up and gets allocated.

But who knows, maybe it's like Dell in the early-mid 2000s.

 

[bit_user]

I'm disappointed the article didn't say what kind of CPU it is, but I'll chip in my best guess: 8-CPU, 56-core Intel Sapphire Rapids (or Emerald Rapids). Also, they're probably counting vCPUs, which gives you 2 per physical core (if hyperthreading is enabled).

Presently, the highest AMD can go is 512 vCPUs, because their highest core-count CPU is 128 cores and they only offer dual-socket scalability. However, the Zen 5C EPYC should go up to 768 threads.

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

I'm disappointed the article didn't say what kind of CPU it is, but I'll chip in my best guess: 8-CPU, 56-core Intel Sapphire Rapids (or Emerald Rapids). Also, they're probably counting vCPUs, which gives you 2 per physical core (if hyperthreading is enabled).

You are actually correct ! These are indeed Intel Sapphire Rapids vCPUs rather than actual cores. So we are looking at an 8-Socket 56 cores Sapphires Rapids server platform. They are not using Emerald Rapids here.

AWS, like other CSPs, counts a Sapphire Rapids core twice due to SMT. And AMD doesn't give much preference to platform above 2 Sockets.

 

[oldcomputerguy]

What kind of BS graph is that, the AWS bar is more then double the next bar but it's not more than double in value.. that's some biased reporting to make AWS look even "better"

 

[wbfox]

We've all been there, it's that time of year when the 400 on-prem cores you have just don't cut it, and you need some help doing that heavy lifting for another 1.5 hours, and that is where Liftr comes in! We just think there is a great need out there for costumers, who on occasion, have the need for 896 cores for a few hours before it stops making sense to just buy their own gear. Something about peak web traffic hours and that this cannot be accessed from certain countries but that VPNs and 3rd parties won't be inquired into and that should be good for the bosses back home. Because Amazon shopping is just far too dependent upon good old Ali to be believed.