Amazon Web Services increases scalability of Epic database performance

by Jimmy DeLurgio, Adriana Pradel, and Matt Dinger | on

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (Amazon Web Services) has increased maximum sizing of global references per second (GRefs/s) for Epic on Amazon Web Services customers.  Amazon Web Services now supports operational database workloads of up to 42 million GRefs/s.  This represents a 61% GRefs/s increase from the previous Amazon Web Services GRefs/s sizing announcement .

This step-change in scalability, delivered on the R6in instance, represents high GRefs/s sizing in the public cloud.  Tested and validated by Amazon Web Services and Epic, these new instances are designed to serve the needs of mission-critical healthcare systems.

The R6in instance offers up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 350K IOPS of Amazon EBS performance.  This instance type also supports Epic utility servers. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) R6in instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, deliver up to 15% better price performance when compared to R5n instances.

In addition, Amazon Web Services announced scalability results for the Amazon EC2 M6a instance . The M6a instance provides 38M GRefs/s.  This instance is designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage, and network resources.  This instance is powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors, and delivers up to 35% better price performance when compared to M5a instances.

Both the R6in and M6a instances are built on the Amazon Web Services Nitro System (Nitro System). The Nitro System provides a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which enables faster innovation and enhanced security.  The Nitro System delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to a customer’s instances, resulting in better overall performance.

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Jimmy DeLurgio

Jimmy DeLurgio

Jimmy DeLurgio is a Senior Solutions Architect for Healthcare at Amazon Web Services. He holds a masters in computer information systems from the University of Denver and has over ten years of healthcare and technical operations experience. He enjoys working at Amazon Web Services helping healthcare customers learn about the cloud and pushing computer systems to their technical limits. When not playing with new technology, he enjoys dates with his wife, watching his kids play sports, Nordic skiing, golfing, and traveling Europe.

Adriana Pradel

Adriana Pradel

Adriana is the Global Technical Business Development Manager for Electronic Health Records(EHR) at Amazon Web Services. In this role she works backwards from the customers business goals to accelerate their cloud transformation journey. Adriana has over 18 years of experience in health information technology from EHR implementation & support, integration, interoperability and master data management. She is passionate about leveraging the cloud to accelerate innovation and decrease the cost of care. In her free time she watches a lot of kids sports, practices yoga and enjoys traveling with family and friends.

Matt Dinger

Matt Dinger

Matt Dinger is a leader on the Worldwide Public Sector Global Healthcare team at Amazon Web Services. He has over fifteen years of healthcare and EHR experience including nearly a decade at Epic, but as a person living with type 1 diabetes, approaches all situations as a patient first. He loves keeping customers happy and believes that implementation and customer success processes should be as innovative and dynamic as the technology itself. When not working with customers, he enjoys volunteering in health advocacy initiatives as a member of the board of trustees for T1International and spending time with his husband.

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