Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) latest data-center chip, the Graviton2, is now generally available in the company’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Graviton2 is Amazon’s second-generation processor based on Arm’s 64-bit Neoverse core design and is produced using a 7-nanometer process. However, this isn’t simply a rebrand or direct license of an Arm design. The Graviton2 features custom silicon designed by AWS for its role in the company’s cloud data centers.
“Arm processors have emerged as an exciting and mainstream alternative to x86 processors for a wide variety of existing and emerging workloads,” said David Brown, VP of Amazon EC2, in a statement. “The new Amazon EC2 instances powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based, Graviton2 processors represent a significant generational leap for customers, delivering 40% better price/performance over comparable x86-based instances, and already we’ve seen a broad set of customers embrace them across a wide variety of general-purpose, compute-optimized, and memory-optimized workloads.”
Compared to Amazon’s first-generation chip, the Graviton2 claims 700% higher performance, four times as many cores, and 500% faster memory.
The chip can be configured in three instances within EC2. M6g instances are designed for general-purpose workloads that balance compute, memory, and networking. AWS also offers C6g and R6g instances which are optimized for compute and memory-intensive workloads, respectively.
Amazon claims, since the introduction of the first Graviton chips a little over a year ago, demand has steadily grown among customers, especially among those running scale-out workloads like containerized microservices and web-tier applications.
Several high-profile customers have already announced their intention to take advantage of Amazon’s custom silicon-based cloud instances, according to AWS. These customers include Netflix, Nielsen, Datadog, Honeycomb.io, Hotelbeds, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, and CrowdStrike.
“We use Amazon EC2 M instance types for a number of workloads inclusive of our streaming, encoding, data processing, and monitoring applications,” said Ed Hunter, director of performance and operating systems at Netflix, in a statement. “We tested the new M6g instances using industry-standard LMbench and certain Java benchmarks and saw up to 50% improvement over M5 instances.”
Arm Sets Up Shop in the Cloud
Amazon isn’t the only cloud provider to deploy Arm-based silicon in its data centers.
Last year Microsoft Azure announced it would offer cloud instances running on Marvell’s ThunderX 2 platform. And earlier this year, Oracle announced plans to deploy Ampere’s Altra data center chips in its Gen 2 Cloud.
All three chips are based on the Arm Neoverse architecture but feature proprietary customizations designed to accelerate cloud workloads.
AMD’s 2nd-Gen EYPC Chips Now Available on AWS
AMD also last week announced its second-generation EPYC processors are now available on EC2. The new C5a instances are available in eight configurations and with up to 96 virtual CPUs in AWS’ U.S. East, U.S. West, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions.
AMD claims the chips offer the lowest cost per x86 virtual CPU in Amazon’s entire EC2 portfolio.
“Since launching Amazon EC2 R5a, M5a, and T3a instances powered by first gen AMD EPYC processors, we’ve seen customers move many general purpose and memory-optimized workloads to take advantage of the AMD EPYC processor capabilities and 10% lower prices over comparable instances,” Brown said in a statement. “With the availability of Amazon EC2 C5a instances based on the second-gen AMD EPYC processors, customers now have a new option that enables better performance and cost for a variety of compute-intensive workloads, as well.”
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