Another top cloud vendor picks AMD processors over Intel
Another win for Team Red
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Virtual machines (VM) featuringAMD processorshave outscoredIntelpowered ones, according to new benchmarking data that compares the offerings across topcloud computingproviders.
Capitalizing on its impressivenew EPYC processors,AMDhas been making very vocal inroads into the cloud computing sphere, which has traditionally been dominated byIntel-poweredservers. Recently, Europeancloud providerIonos alsounveiled new offeringsbased on AMD’s Ryzen and EPYC processors.
Data for the new cloud computing report has been compiled by benchmarking firm Cloud Spectator, commissioned byweb hostingproviderLinode. In virtually all the tests, Linode VMs powered by AMD EPYC 7542 delivered a better price-performance when pitted against similar Intel-powered offerings fromAlibaba,AmazonWeb Services (AWS),Azure,DigitalOcean, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Cheap performance
The report compares VMs with one CPU and 2GBRAMrunning on shared infrastructure as well as VMs with four CPUs and 8GB RAM on dedicated instances. Cloud Spectator says its intention was to test how the offerings compare in terms of price, performance, and value.
Its benchmarks revealed that Linode’s AMD 7542 based 2GB VM delivered much better performance than its Intel Xeon Platinum-powered peers. It put the configurations through various workloads and found that the AMD EPYC VMs generally outpaced the Intel VMs.
In fact, the AMD VMs slipped to the runner’s up spot only in the random read and random write performance benchmarks, losing out to DigitalOcean’s offerings in both these tests.
“Our approach to testing is based on matching instance sizes, storage approaches and implementations so that we can compare and contrast what customers will see in the real world - we want as fair an overview as possible,” said Cloud Spectator’s CEO Mike Jung.
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“From a price standpoint, companies can achieve significant savings using alternative cloud providers compared to using hyperscalers,” concludes Jung based on the findings of the report.
With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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