In this episode of AWS TechChat we cover ‘Monday Night Live’, the first keynote of AWS re:Invent 2019 presented by Peter Desantis - VP of AWS Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, and it's all about infrastructure.
We start the show talking about HPC (High Performance Computing), the pain points around HPC that users faced in the past and how our investments in our network, with 100Gb networking, Nitro and EFA (Elastic Fabric Adapter) have been a game changer.
Formula 1 give us a lesson in CFD (Computation Fluid Dynamics) and how AWS is helping fans to stand on the edge of the seat with the 2021 car which reduces dirty air for the following car ensuring following cars don't take a huge down-force hit.
We talk about Machine Learning, P3dn, G4 and snuck in a tidbit for AWS Inferentia which was released today in the form of the Amazon EC2 Inf1 family.
To close out this episode, we cover AWS global network and introduce 10 new Amazon CloudFront edge locations before finishing on what we are doing on the sustainability front to run our business in the most environmentally friendly way possible.
Speakers:
Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS
Peter Stanski - Head of Solution Architecture, AWS
Resources:
High Performance Computing
https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/
Amazon EC2 C5n Instances
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-amazon-ec2-c5n-instances/
Elastic Fabric Adapter
https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/efa/
F1 Insights powered by AWS
https://aws.amazon.com/f1insights/
New – EC2 P3dn GPU Instances
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-p3dn-gpu-instances-with-100-gbps-networking-local-nvme-storage-for-faster-machine-learning-p3-price-reduction/
Amazon EC2 G4 Instances
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/g4/
Inf1 Instances with AWS Inferentia Chips
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-update-inf1-instances-with-aws-inferentia-chips-for-high-performance-cost-effective-inferencing
Amazon CloudFront announces 10 new Edge locations
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/whats-new/
AWS & Sustainability
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/
AWS Events:
AWS Builders Online Series
https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/
AWS Modern Application Development on-demand
https://aws.amazon.com/events/application/modern-app-development/
AWS Innovate on-demand
https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/
AWS Events and Webinars
https://aws.amazon.com/events/