Amazon's latest Graviton 4 EC2 instances pack dual 300Gbps NICs

Amazon Web Services has cooked up a new Graviton 4-powered instance tuned for network-intensive applications like cloud firewalls and load balancers. The C8gn instances revealed this week offer up to 192 Arm-based vCPUs across a pair of Graviton 4 processors and 384GB of DDR5 memory, which Amazon Web Services (AWS) says gives …

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Tax

Just a reminder: while your local A&E is held together with duct tape and prayers, Amazon - perpetually tax shy - gets billions in government contracts and subsidies to build 600Gbps cloud instances.

This is where your tax money goes: not into schools, hospitals, or care for the disabled, but into faster delivery of targeted ads, surveillance analytics, and load-balanced garbage.

Britain may be broke, but at least Amazon’s bandwidth isn’t.

[HuBo]

Weirdest idea ever

I mean, it's like you have a perfectly fine desk to work at, 4 proper legs and all (400 Gbps), stable, and you go like, NO!, that's way too practical!, let's cut one of those efficiency-raising legs right off and replace it promptly with a duffel bag, for storage ... it's plenty elastic!

Gotta blame this one on some major heatstroke Bezos suffered while honeymooning in Sicily during Europe's meltingly torrid scorcher inferno of a microwaving heatwavemaggedon of blistering doom, imho! Can't see any other logical explanation ...