High Performance Computing (HPC)

• AWS Direct Connect
• Move GB of data to the cloud over a private network
• Snowball & Snowmobile
• Move PB of data to the cloud
• AWS DataSync
• Move large data from on-premise to S3, EFS, ESx for Windows

Enhanced Networking (SR-IOV)

• Use EC2 Placement Groups to place the instances in a single rack

• Elastic Network Adapter (ENA)

• Higher bandwight, higher PPS (packet per second), lower latency

• Up to 100 Gbps

• Legacy ENA: Intel 82599 VG (10 Gbps)

• Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)

• Improved ENA
• Linux only
• Inter-node communication
• Leverages Message Passing Interface (MPI): bypasses the underlying linux OS
• Low l

Storage

• Instance-attached storage
• EBS, Instance Store
• Network storage
• S3, EFS, FSx for Lustre