Last updated: November 29, 2024

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# Boosting encoding speeds with 8-core machines upgrade

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**Felix Geisendörfer**

Co-founder · Berlin, Germany · Show bio

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Last night, we switched our default machine type from Amazon's `c1.medium` (2 core) instances, to`x1.large`.

These new machines are featuring 8 cores, 7 GB memory, better I/O performance and 64-bit architecture.

If you are performing Assemblies that are heavy on encoding, especially those involving multiple output formats, you should see a significant boost in encoding speed.

Unless something comes up, our plan is to only use 8-core machines in production going forward. And who knows, the Cluster Compute Instances (`cc1.4xlarge`) are only one step away now. 😄

Stay tuned!

[#infrastructure](/blog/tags/infrastructure.md)[#ops](/blog/tags/ops.md)

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