AWS creates EC2 instance types tailored for demanding on-prem workloads

Amazon Web services has created new elastic compute cloud instance types for its on-prem Outposts racks, the second generation of which was announced on Tuesday.

Outposts are racks full of the same hardware AWS uses in its own datacenters and can run some of the instance types offered in the Amazonian cloud. Outposts launched in 2019 and AWS happily shipped either racks full of kit or individual servers. Both were offered as a way of delivering hybrid clouds for all and satisfying users who just aren’t comfortable with public cloud for some workloads – but want a consistent IT estate that’s all managed with the same Amazonian tools.

The next-gen Outposts racks launched Tuesday pack fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and have twice the vCPU, memory, and network bandwidth than their predecessors powered by third-generation Xeons. AWS says that means VMs running in the new Outposts racks can deliver ...