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With Nitro they disclosed that every EC2 machine deployed in the last 5+ years has at least one ARM chip because each server has a nitro card. So reading the t
by discodave 5y ago
With Nitro they disclosed that every EC2 machine deployed in the last 5+ years has at least one ARM chip because each server has a nitro card.
So reading the tea leaves... the first generation of EC2 ARM (a1) could have been almost as simple as two nitro cards hooked together.
Graviton2 is likely a bigger chip than what they're sticking on Nitro cards, but if Graviton1 was just the overhead for each Intel machine...