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The second narrative doesn’t explain AWS throwing its weight behind ARM. Not to say that ARM is killing x64, it’s definitely not, but ARM is clearly being inve
by tybit 6y ago
The second narrative doesn’t explain AWS throwing its weight behind ARM.
Not to say that ARM is killing x64, it’s definitely not, but ARM is clearly being invested in and rolled out at a massive scale by 2 of the biggest tech companies in the world in both consumer devices and server side. To me that’s quite something.
- giantrobot 6y agoAWS is throwing their weight behind ARM because they have thousands upon thousands of servers. Their Graviton2 chip runs between 1-1.8W/core [0] and has 64 cores. Their TDP is half that of the EPYC and Xeon equivalents. At data center scale that's a huge savings in power. They could also increase density in the same power envelope. If Amazon were to move significant amounts of their non-EC2 server hardware to Graviton they can see cost savings with no end-user impact. If an AWS product doesn't run client code there's no real requirement to run it on x86. [0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-graviton2-arm-against-intel-and-amd https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-grav...
- cinquemb 6y agoI wish the t4g was available in Singapore… I had to settle for t3a, but the cost savings there combined with using spot instances behind a custom load balancing/dynamic scaling setup (nginx+3rd party modules for hot ip reloads+python daemon using cloudwatch free tier stats) deploying from AMI (docker and k8s needed machines that were 2x ram than just using AMI) made server costs at my last company super cheap, and probably saved amazon even more than when we were running on t2.