{"id":131567,"date":"2021-12-01T05:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T13:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/aws-re-invent-faster-chips-smarter-ai-and-developer-tools-grab-the-spotlight"},"modified":"2021-12-01T05:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T13:22:47","slug":"aws-re-invent-faster-chips-smarter-ai-and-developer-tools-grab-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/aws-re-invent-faster-chips-smarter-ai-and-developer-tools-grab-the-spotlight","title":{"rendered":"AWS re: Invent: Faster chips, smarter AI, and developer tools grab the spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aws-re-invent-faster-chips-smarter-ai-and-developer-tools-grab-the-spotlight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/?s=AWS+re%3AInvent+2021\">Amazon\u2019s Web Services (AWS)<\/a> kicked off its tenth re: Invent conference, an event where it typically announces the biggest changes in the cloud computing industry\u2019s dominant platform. This year\u2019s news includes faster chips, more aggressive artificial intelligence, more developer-friendly tools, and even a bit of quantum computing for those who want to explore its ever-growing potential.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2021\/11\/30\/amazon-announces-graviton3-processors-for-ai-inferencing\/?preview_id=2741094&preview_nonce=056f046daa&preview=true\">Amazon<\/a> is working to lower costs by boosting the performance of its hardware. Their new generation of machines powered by the third generation of AMD\u2019s EPYC processors, the <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/instance-types\/m6a\/\">M6a<\/a>, is touted as offering a 35% boost in price\/performance over the previous generation of M5a machines built with the second generation of the EPYC chips. They\u2019ll be available in sizes that range from two virtual CPUs with 8GB of RAM (m6a.large) up to 192 virtual CPUs and 768GB of RAM (m6a.48xlarge).<\/p>\n<p>AWS also notes that the chips will boast \u201calways-on memory encryption\u201d and rely on faster custom circuitry for faster encryption and decryption. The feature is a nod to users who worry about sharing hardware in the cloud and, perhaps, exposing their data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Amazon\u2019s Web Services (AWS) kicked off its tenth re: Invent conference, an event where it typically announces the biggest changes in the cloud computing industry\u2019s dominant platform. This year\u2019s news includes faster chips, more aggressive artificial intelligence, more developer-friendly tools, and even a bit of quantum computing for those who want to explore [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}