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AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 80 additional Amazon EC2 instance types

What's new at AWS πŸ“’

πŸ›œ Newly supported instance types includes:
πŸ…ΎοΈ GPU-based instances: g5, g5g, g6, gr6, p4d, p4de, p5
πŸ…ΎοΈ Compute optimized instances: c7i-flex, c6id, c8g
πŸ…ΎοΈ Memory optimized instances:r8g, x8g
πŸ…ΎοΈ Storage optimized instances:i4i

πŸ›œ AWS Graviton4 processors offers:
πŸ…ΎοΈ 50% more cores
πŸ…ΎοΈ % more memory bandwidth
πŸ…ΎοΈ Up to 60% better performance than AWS Graviton2.

πŸ›œ The 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors(C7i-flex Instances) offer 5% better price/performance compared to c7i instances.

πŸ›œ What is AWS Compute Optimizer:
βœ… It delivers resource recommendations for various resources to optimize cost and improve performance.
βœ… It uses machine learning technology to analyze historical utilization metrics and resource configuration data before delivers recommendation.

πŸ›œ Resource configuration includes:
1️⃣ EC2 Instance types and ASG
2️⃣ Amazon EBS volume configurations
3️⃣ Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate task sizes
4️⃣ Amazon RDS DB instance classes
5️⃣ Lambda function memory size
6️⃣ And commercial software licenses

πŸ“Œ Key note for Pricing:
πŸ’Έ Default Compute Optimizer:
πŸ”Έ It analyses the CloudWatch metrics for Last 14 days
πŸ”Έ No additional fee for Compute optimizer service.
πŸ’Έ Enhanced Compute Optimizer:
πŸ”Έ It helps to analyse 3 months history of performance metric.
πŸ”Έ Customers can run monthly or quarterly.
πŸ”Έ Pricing $0.0003360215 per resource per hour /month running.

πŸ“Œ Explore more about Compute Optimizer:
https://aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer/getting-started/

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