AWS Announces X1 Instances For EC2 With 2TB Of Memory, Launching Next Year

 Amazon today announced a massive new instance type for its AWS EC2 compute service. The new X1 instances will feature 2 terabytes of memory. That’s a huge increase from what was previously EC2’s largest instance type, which “only” featured 200 gigabytes of memory. As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels noted in today’s keynote, this will make it easier for AWS users to do… Read More