Today at re:Invent , Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced new Amazon EC2 X1 instances , which will feature up to 2 TB of memory, a full order of magnitude larger than the current generation of AWS high-memory instances. Demonstrating the importance of obtaining the highest performance available, AWS selected the 4 socket Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8880 v3 (Haswell) to power the new instances.
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Chip Shot: New Amazon EC2 X1 Instance Type Powered by Highest Performing Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 v3