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Karthik Sakthivel
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AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 80 additional Amazon EC2 instance types

What's new at AWS ๐Ÿ“ข

๐Ÿ›œ Newly supported instance types includes:
๐Ÿ…พ๏ธ GPU-based instances: g5, g5g, g6, gr6, p4d, p4de, p5
๐Ÿ…พ๏ธ Compute optimized instances: c7i-flex, c6id, c8g
๐Ÿ…พ๏ธ Memory optimized instances:r8g, x8g
๐Ÿ…พ๏ธ Storage optimized instances:i4i

๐Ÿ›œ AWS Graviton4 processors offers:
๐Ÿ…พ๏ธ 50% more cores
๐Ÿ…พ๏ธ % more memory bandwidth
๐Ÿ…พ๏ธ Up to 60% better performance than AWS Graviton2.

๐Ÿ›œ The 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors(C7i-flex Instances) offer 5% better price/performance compared to c7i instances.

๐Ÿ›œ What is AWS Compute Optimizer:
โœ… It delivers resource recommendations for various resources to optimize cost and improve performance.
โœ… It uses machine learning technology to analyze historical utilization metrics and resource configuration data before delivers recommendation.

๐Ÿ›œ Resource configuration includes:
1๏ธโƒฃ EC2 Instance types and ASG
2๏ธโƒฃ Amazon EBS volume configurations
3๏ธโƒฃ Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate task sizes
4๏ธโƒฃ Amazon RDS DB instance classes
5๏ธโƒฃ Lambda function memory size
6๏ธโƒฃ And commercial software licenses

๐Ÿ“Œ Key note for Pricing:
๐Ÿ’ธ Default Compute Optimizer:
๐Ÿ”ธ It analyses the CloudWatch metrics for Last 14 days
๐Ÿ”ธ No additional fee for Compute optimizer service.
๐Ÿ’ธ Enhanced Compute Optimizer:
๐Ÿ”ธ It helps to analyse 3 months history of performance metric.
๐Ÿ”ธ Customers can run monthly or quarterly.
๐Ÿ”ธ Pricing $0.0003360215 per resource per hour /month running.

๐Ÿ“Œ Explore more about Compute Optimizer:
https://aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer/getting-started/

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