Amazon Web Services launches powerful EC2 X2iezn instances tailored for electronic design automation.
AWS is introducing powerful new instances to its EC2 offering. The x2iezninstances are designed to support electronic design automation (EDA). They use Cascade Lake processors from the Intel Xeon Scalable range. In AWS’ configuration, the chips have a maximum clock speed of 4.5 GHz and are accompanied by 1.5 TB of memory. The instances should offer an up to 55 percent better price-performance ratio than their predecessors.
Various options
As usual, the instances come in multiple flavors. At the lower end of the lineup is the x2iezn.2xlarge with eight vCPUs, 256 GB of RAM, 3.17 Gbps of EBS bandwidth and 25 Gbps of overall bandwidth. The x2iezn.12xlarge is the most powerful instance in the range and, unlike the x2iezn.metal, it has all 48 compute cores of the Xeon chip at its disposal. In addition to the aforementioned 1.5 TB of RAM, you get 100 Gbps of general bandwidth and 19 Gbps of EBS-optimized bandwidth.
Customers will be able to optionally enable and disable hyperthreading, depending on what works best for specific workloads. AWS is rolling out the x2iezn instances initially in some U.S. and Asian regions but also in Europe (Ireland).
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