“I have written about the benefits of GPU-based computing in the past, most recently as part of the launch of the P2 instances with up to 16 GPUs. As I have noted in the past, GPUs offer incredible power and scale, along with the potential to simultaneously decrease your time-to-results and your overall compute costs. Today I would like to tell you a little bit about a new GPU-based feature that we are working on. You will soon have the ability to add graphics acceleration to existing EC2 instance types. When you use G2 or P2 instances, the instance size determines the number of GPUs. While this works well for many types of applications, we believe that many other applications are now ready to take advantage of a newer and more flexible model.”