Saturday, July 02, 2022

AWS Graviton3 EC2

AWS Releases First Graviton3 Instances @InfoQ

AWS has recently announced the general availability of the C7g instances, the first EC2 instances running Graviton3 processors. Designed for compute-intensive workloads, they provide always-on memory encryption, dedicated caches for every vCPU, and support for pointer authentication.

Announced in preview at the latest re:Invent, the C7g instances are available in eight sizes, from 1 to 64 vCPUs supported configurations up to 128 GiB of memory, 30 Gbps of network performance, and 20 Gbps of EBS performance.

WD Security SW

to enable password protection and enable hardware encryption with WD portable drives
need to install and run this software

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WD Security

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