Chinese and company is preparing to trial a new instance type powered by custom Arm-based silicon. The new Yitian 710 processor, first , will underpin Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances powered by a varying number of vCPUs, each of which will be tied to a physical core. Under the preview program, which will last only two months and support just 100 customers, a single configuration will be available, with 4 vCPUs, 16GB memory and 3Gbit/sec network bandwidth.
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