The second day of the 2023 Amazon Cloud Technology China Summit will continue! On June 28, Chen Xiaojian, product general manager of Amazon Cloud Technology Greater China, pointed out in his keynote speech "Focus on Innovation, Get Rid of Infrastructure Constraints" that cloud services are the key productivity to support digital innovation. In the current environment where generative AI technology is exploding, Amazon Cloud Technology, through extensive and in-depth infrastructure services and functions, assists customers in global business expansion in an all-round way, and realizes innovation and change under the wave of AI.
The outbreak of AI technology drives the demand for computing power to blow out
Amazon cloud technology provides comprehensive and in-depth computing power support
AI and machine learning technologies have already penetrated into many innovation scenarios. Today, the trend of generative AI brings new business opportunities and efficiency improvements to enterprises, such as text and image generation, code generation, and so on. There is no doubt that generative AI has become the most concerned innovative technology at present, and the explosion of AI technology directly promotes the demand for computing resources. In the face of many challenges, Chen Xiaojian, product general manager of Amazon Cloud Technology Greater China, shared at the meeting how Amazon Cloud Technology can rebuild your application by providing a wide range of services and functions.
Launched self-developed chips to achieve higher cost performance
Since the launch of Amazon Nitro, the first self-developed chip, Amazon Cloud Technology has accelerated the creation of "chips". While the entire computing instance has become more and more complex and more powerful, it has continued to focus on technological innovation and improve product efficiency.
In general, Nitro has done three things. First, it is a highly lightweight virtualization; second, it realizes the isolation of data communication and storage at the network level; third, it realizes hardware-level encryption. With Nitro, the security of the entire EC2 instance application is greatly enhanced, each unit can develop independently, and it also ensures the stability of all EC2 instances. The latest generation of Nitro V5 chip has greatly improved performance compared to previous chips, including faster forwarding rate, lower latency, and a 40% increase in performance per watt.
Amazon Cloud Technology has also launched Graviton, a general-purpose processor chip based on the ARM architecture. Graviton has reached 3E. Compared with the previous Graviton products, Graviton3E has a 25% increase in computing performance, double the floating-point performance, and double the encryption workload performance. ; Graviton3E pays special attention to the performance of vector computing, which has increased by 35% compared with the previous generation. This performance boost is especially important for applications like HPC high-performance computing.
In practical applications, Formula One uses Graviton3 to run aerodynamic simulations, which can develop a new generation of racing cars at a speed 70% faster than before, and the pressure loss of racing cars can be reduced from 50% to 15%. Since the loss of pressure drop can make it easier for car owners to overtake, car fans can bring more fights on the field. F1 has collected more than 550 million data points through more than 5,000 single-car and multi-car simulations to help them optimize the next generation of racing cars. According to Formula One, “Graviton3 has resulted in 40% faster system performance, enabling simulations to be run overnight and results available the next morning.”
Elastic computing and storage combination to meet abundant computing demands
Amazon cloud technology provides more than 600 different computing instances: various peripheral services from processors, storage, and networks can be well combined with computing, and form rich and flexible computing instance resources in the form of building blocks to meet multiple needs. different computing power requirements.
In addition to self-developed chips, Amazon Cloud Technology also provides up to eight storage levels, and you can find a suitable storage level for both hot and cold data. Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering's unique fully automatic storage intelligent tiering technology has saved more than US$1 billion for global users.
In practical applications, Amazon Cloud Technology provides Weta Digital, the world's leading comprehensive visual effects company, with a series of services from infrastructure computing resources to cloud production stacks and machine learning stacks. Weta Digital uses a large number of computing instances including GPUs, and Spot instances also provide it with very strong scalability and good cost performance. "Avatar 1, it took us 14 months to see the first frame, and for Avatar 2, in eight months, we had 3.3 billion thread-hours in the cloud," Weta Digital said.
Serverless architecture simplifies O&M management
Is it enough to have a variety of chips and a highly scalable resource supply? Users also hope to reduce the complexity of cloud operation and maintenance. Amazon Cloud Technology provides users with a third weapon, Serverless.
Since the release of Lambda in 2014, Amazon Cloud Technology has successively released more than 105 new serverless technologies, including: Lambda SnapStart, which solves the cold start problem of Java applications, and Application Composer, a visual editor. Users can choose different elasticity and computing granularity according to the type of application. For general computing, maybe they only use EC2. Of course, they can also use ECS or EKS like container orchestration. If you need an extreme elastic change capability , Amazon cloud technology has Fargate and Lambda that can provide products with extreme elasticity and extreme cost performance.
In practical application, Second Dinner adopts the serverless architecture of Amazon Cloud Technology to develop and build a digital card game "MARVEL SNAP" based on Marvel IP, which will become popular all over the world in 2022. The entire game does not use any EC2 computing instance or container, and is all implemented by an event-driven architecture, which not only helps users save costs, speeds up application development, but also reduces security risks.
Aaron Brunstetter, vice president of engineering at Second Dinner, said, "We have operated and maintained many games before, but from a technical point of view, there is no doubt that MARVEL SNAP is the smoothest and most successful game we have ever run. That’s precisely because we chose Amazon Cloud Technology.” In the end, MARVEL SNAP launched without a single backend error event, which is unheard of in the gaming industry.