Custom Intel CPUs Coming to Amazon EC2 C4 Instances

Amazon recently let slip the news that its new Amazon EC2 C4 instances, based on Intel’s Haswell processor, would soon be available—only to kill the post shortly afterward. Although the post has disappeared from aws.amazon.com, some minor detective work revealed a remarkably similar post by AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr. “Private: Now Available—New C4 Instances” is …