1 TB of Memory in 1 Minute with 1 Command
http://alestic.com/2009/10/ec2-4xlarge
Amazon Web Services just announced the release of two new instance types for EC2. These new types have 34.2 GB and 68.4 GB of RAM with a decent amount of CPU capacity on modern CPUs to go along with it.
Others have already done a great job of describing the instance types:
Jeff Barr’s AWS blog
RightScale’s blog
but when it comes to flexing the raw power at my fingertips with AWS, sometimes I can’t help myself. So…
sitting on my couch with my laptop watching an episode of “Lie to me” on TiVo I just typed:
