AWS and AMD have collaborated to give customers more choice and value in cloud computing, starting with the first generation AMD EPYC processors in 2018, such as M5a/R5a, M5ad/R5ad, and T3a instances. At AWS re:Invent this week, Amazon announced GA of Amazon EC2 M6a instances featuring 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors. These AMD processors operate at frequencies

Today NVIDIA LaunchPad hits new heights. LaunchPad is a hands-on environment where enterprise customers can use NVIDIA AI Enterprise servers in a vSphere 7 environment managed by Equinix free of charge for 2-4 weeks. Although enterprises are more than welcome to use this service with real workloads they are considering deploying on an NVIDIA environment,

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has been offering innovative cloud solutions for some time. Back in 2018, we reviewed their bare metal instances, which were crazy fast thanks to NVMe storage and networking infrastructure that was beyond most other clouds. OCI has continued to push the boundaries with HPC instances that leverage the latest 3rd Gen

There’s little doubt that Amazon is the leader when it comes to a variety of cloud services offered through their EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) web service. With a relatively simple provisioning process and the ability to easily scale instances and storage needs up or down, EC2 aims to deliver all the promise of the cloud

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure includes a wide variety of service offerings including compute, storage, networking, database, and load balancing–in effect, all the infrastructure necessary to construct a cloud-based data center. In the context of this review, we’re interested in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute category, with a very specific focus on their bare metal instances.