Amazon Web Services isn’t only announcing new services at its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week. Of course, it’s adding new low-level instances — slices of physical servers — to its market-leading public cloud.
“The new C4 instance is the highest-performance one that you can get,” Werner Vogels, Amazon’s chief technology officer, told the crowd at the conference.
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Here’s the lineup of the new C4 instances:
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Above: C4
Pricing details will come later, according to a blog post today from Jeff Barr, the Amazon cloud’s chief evangelist.
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