Amazon Web Service, Inc. (AWS) recently announced the availability of new High Memory instances for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Current Amazon EC2 High Memory instances, aimed to run large in-memory databases including production deployments of SAP HANA, deliver 6TB, 9TB, and 12TB of memory – with 18TB and 24TB instances expected to arrive in 2019. Amazon EC2 High Memory instanced give customers the ability to scale their in-memory database deployments and integrate them with the rest of AWS, including storage, networking, IoT, analytics, and machine learning by combining the largest memory sizes available in the cloud with the dexterity and reliability of AWS.
Amazon Web Service, Inc. (AWS) recently announced the availability of new High Memory instances for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Current Amazon EC2 High Memory instances, aimed to run large in-memory databases including production deployments of SAP HANA, deliver 6TB, 9TB, and 12TB of memory – with 18TB and 24TB instances expected to arrive in 2019. Amazon EC2 High Memory instanced give customers the ability to scale their in-memory database deployments and integrate them with the rest of AWS, including storage, networking, IoT, analytics, and machine learning by combining the largest memory sizes available in the cloud with the dexterity and reliability of AWS.
Production deployments of in-memory databases continue to expand as enterprises continue to process more real-time data to make more efficient business decisions. In-memory databases process multiple terabytes of data on a single server in real time, requiring predictable memory scaling and low latency connections to the business logic hosted in the cloud for responsive application performance. Customers who are making the transition to the cloud want to be able to run their large in-memory databases in the cloud and remain close to the other services that are interacting with their in-memory databases. This issue has often been approached by other providers by offering a hosted in-memory database on premises or in a co-located data center. The issue that arises from this, through the extra networking required to connect the environment to the cloud, is that cost is increased, operation is more complex, and it adds application latency and variability. Through Amazon EC2’s 6,9, and 12TB High Memory instances, customers can experience lower latency levels, operational simplicity, and more predictable performance when running their in-memory databases in the cloud in the same Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) as the rest of their enterprise applications.
Amazon EC2 High Memory instances, certified by SAP for running Business Suite on Hana, next gen Business Suite S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA in production environments, is available as bare metal instances on EC2 Dedicated Hosts. These instances are powered by the latest generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Skylake) processors and are the first ever EC2 instances to be offered on an 8-socket platform.
Availability
Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are available on a 3-year reservation in the US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS regions, with availability in US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and AWS GovCloud (US-West) planned in the coming months.
Amazon EC2 High Memory Instances
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