Amazon’s ARM-based CPU embraces extreme fine-tuning as it takes on Intel and AMD
AWS has revealed new Graviton2-powered instances
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Amazonhas announced several new additions to its compute portfolio, including new AWS Graviton2-powered C6gn instances.
The Graviton2 chip was unveiled last year, promising significant cost savings for scale-out applications such as those running onweb hostingservers.
The new Graviton2 instance will offer four-times the network bandwidth, four-times as much packer processing performance, and twice as much EBS bandwidth compared to C6g instances. For applications that need high-performance computing and real-time video communications, as well as others that rely on high networking bandwidth, the new Graviton2 instances will be in high demand.
“Based on the amazing feedback from customers such as Snap, NextRoll, Intuit, SmugMug, and Honeycomb who are running their workloads on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances powered by AWS Graviton2, today we are announcing an addition to our broadArm-based Graviton2 portfolio with C6gn instances that deliver up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth, up to 38 Gbps Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth, up to 40% higher packet processing performance, and up to 40% better price/performance versus comparable current generation x86-based network optimized instances,” Danilo Poccia, Chief Evangelist (EMEA) at Amazon Web Services,said.
An Arm wrestle
The new instances also ramp up competition in the processor market. Amazon’s Arm-based Graviton2 represents yet another example of a major technology player choosing to shun chips made byIntelandAMD, the traditional industry leaders concerning chips for servers and PCs.Applehas also chosen to go withits own Arm-based chipin its recent Mac releases.
Arm’s chips were originally used pretty much exclusively in mobile phones due to their smaller power requirements. However, in recent years, the company has seen a greater uptake by customers that plan to use the processors outside of the smartphone space – including Amazon.
In otherAWS news, five industrial machine learning capabilities, four new container capabilities, and four storage innovations were among the announcements made at the company’s re:Invent conference, which is taking place virtually this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Barclay has been writing about technology for a decade, starting out as a freelancer with ITProPortal covering everything from London’s start-up scene to comparisons of the best cloud storage services. After that, he spent some time as the managing editor of an online outlet focusing on cloud computing, furthering his interest in virtualization, Big Data, and the Internet of Things.
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