Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon company recently has announced its High Storage instances, a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family optimized for applications requiring fast access to large amounts of data. The new Amazon EC2 high storage instance family is an ideal solution for data-intensive applications including Hadoop workloads, log processing and data warehousing, and parallel file systems to process and analyze large data sets in the AWS Cloud.
by Terry Brown
