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Amazon Web Services Introduces New Amazon EC2 High Storage Instance Family
SEATTLE --(Business Wire)--
Amazon Web Services (News - Alert) Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN),
today announced High Storage instances, a new Amazon Elastic Compute
Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family optimized for applications requiring
fast access to large amounts of data. These new instances provide
customers with 35 EC2 Compute Units (ECUs) of compute capacity, 117 GiB
of RAM (News - Alert), 48 TB of storage across 24 hard disk drives, and are capable of
delivering more than 2.4 GB per second of sequential I/O performance.
With large amounts of direct attached storage per instance, these High
Storage instances are ideal for data-intensive applications including
Hadoop workloads, log processing and data warehousing, and parallel file
systems to process and analyze large data sets in the AWS Cloud. To get
started with Amazon EC2 and High Storage instances, visit http://aws.amazon.com/ec2.
"As customers move every imaginable workload to AWS, we continue to
provide them with additional instance families to meet the requirements
of their applications," said Peter De Santis, Vice President of Amazon
EC2. "High Storage instances are the 9th Amazon EC2 instance family and
join Cluster Compute instances and High I/O instances as instance
families designed to enhance the performance and efficiency of
customers' most demanding applications. These new instances also power
Amazon Redshift, a new petabyte scale data warehousing service, and will
be very important for customers using Amazon Elastic MapReduce to
process large quantities of data."
"We're very excited about the introduction of High Storage instances.
These instances significantly lower the cost of processing large data
sets with Elastic MapReduce," said John Schroeder, CEO of MapR
Technologies. "MapR's M3 and M5 Hadoop distributions offer
enterprise-grade Hadoop features such as high availability, data
snapshotting, mirroring across availability zones, and NFS mounts. High
Storage instances are ideal for these distributions, available through
Amazon Elastic MapReduce, as they provide customers a low-cost way to
quickly and easily process their large data sets."
Customers can launch High Storage instances using the AWS Management
Console, Amazon EC2 and Amazon Elastic MapReduce Command Line Interface,
AWS SDKs, and third party libraries. High Storage instances are
currently available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region and will be made
available in other AWS Regions in the coming months. Customers can
purchase High Storage instances as On-Demand or Reserved instances. For
more information on Amazon EC2 and High Storage instances, visit http://aws.amazon.com/ec2.
About Amazon Web Services
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key
infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now
widely known as cloud computing.The ultimate benefit of cloud
computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and
turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no
longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or
months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon's
expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business
needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon
Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost
infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands
of enterprise, government and startup customers businesses in 190
countries around the world. AWS offers over 30 different services,
including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple
Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Relational Database Service
(Amazon RDS). AWS services are available to customers from data center
locations in the U.S., Brazil, Europe, Japan, Singapore and Australia.
About Amazon.com (News - Alert)
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle,
opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's
Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything
they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the
lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of
unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books;
Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home
& Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health &
Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web
Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to
in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end
technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any
type of business. Kindle Paperwhite is the most-advanced e-reader ever
constructed with 62% more pixels and 25% increased contrast, a patented
built-in front light for reading in all lighting conditions, extra-long
battery life, and a thin and light design. The new latest generation
Kindle, the lightest and smallest Kindle, now features new, improved
fonts and faster page turns. Kindle Fire HD features a stunning custom
high-definition display, exclusive Dolby audio with dual stereo
speakers, high-end, laptop-grade Wi-Fi with dual-band support,
dual-antennas and MIMO for faster streaming and downloads, enough
storage for HD content, and the latest generation processor and graphics
engine-and it is available in two display sizes-7" and 8.9". The
large-screen Kindle Fire HD is also available with 4G wireless, and
comes with a groundbreaking $49.99 introductory 4G LTE (News - Alert) data package. The
all-new Kindle Fire features a 20% faster processor, 40% faster
performance, twice the memory, and longer battery life.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com,
www.amazon.co.uk,
www.amazon.de,
www.amazon.co.jp,
www.amazon.fr,
www.amazon.ca,
www.amazon.cn,
www.amazon.it,
www.amazon.es
and www.amazon.com.br.
As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include
Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates
otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning
of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly
from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve
risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to
competition, management of growth, new products, services and
technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international
expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center
optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and
strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption,
inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More
information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's
financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual
Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.

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