AWS Launches Turbocharged Cloud Virtual Desktop.

Amazon Web Services has launched a new cloud virtual desktop which provides users with turbocharged machine they can access over the internet.

The bundle is meant for the developers, data analysts and other users who want compute and memory-heavy lifting to get their work done. 

Specifications :

• 4 Virtual CPUs
• 16 GiB RAM
• 275 GB Storage

Pricing :

Users will have to pay $78/month for a Power bundle WorkSpace running in AWS’ US-East (Northern Virginia) region. Users have an option to pay $19/month and 68 cents an hour for a Power bundle, if they don’t expect to use the WorkSpace very frequently.

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AWS Lowers The Prices Of Reserved Instances & M4 Instances.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) lowers the prices of Reserved Instances along with introduction of “No upfront” payment option for 3 year standard RIs. Moreover AWS reduces the prices of M4 instance family (both On-demand & Reserved Instances). This is 61st price reduction by the AWS. All the changes are made effective immediately.

Here are the details :

1. New No Upfront Payment Option for 3 Year Standard RIs

2. Lower prices for No Upfront Reserved Instances by upto 17%

3. Lower Prices for Convertible Reserved Instances by upto 21%

4. Lower prices for M4 Instances by upto 7%

Reference : https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-price-reductions-reserved-instances-m4-instances/

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AWS Elastic Volume Changes The Way You Have Been Using EBS.

AWS launches new EBS feature called Elastic Volumes which allows you to increase volume size, adjust performance or change the volume type while the volume is in use. The feature is available for all current-generation EBS volumes attached to current-generation EC2 instances. 

Use cases :

1. Change the volume type on the go.
2. Increase provisioned IOPS of volume to handle the spike in traffic, and then dial it down afterward.
3. Increase the size of the volume and expand the file system to match, with no downtime.

You can manage all of this from the AWS Management Console, via API calls, or from the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI).

The next step is to expand the file system so that it can take advantage of additional storage space. Here are the steps of Expanding the Storage Space of an EBS Volume on Linux or Expanding the Storage Space of an EBS Volume on Windows.

Reference : https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ebs-update-new-elastic-volumes-change-everything/

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