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There is very little offering and honestly afaik they are not competing on performance except niche applications. It's not that easy to displace x86...

by guepe 4y ago

colinmhayes 4y ago
As far as I know most AWS services can be run on graviton instances.
StillBored 4y ago
I'm not sure that is accurate for Gravaton3, which appears to be besting intel/amd in a number of cases. So, it doesn't appear there is a clear leader between the amd, intel and gravaton instances. Meaning everyone should be benchmarking their application and picking one. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=graviton3-amd-intel&num=1 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=graviton... Amazon here seems to be leading the Arm technology pack, as they are using a newer generation of CPU, while arm instances on other providers tend to be providing gravaton2 (Neoverse-N1) based instances. I would imagine that gradually changing in the near future as those vendors also upgrade.
canucklady 4y ago
Graviton3 on AWS is better for most applications on a cost/performance basis, and in some cases also on straight latency. Honeycomb has some great blogs about it: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/present-future-arm-aws-graviton-honeycomb/ https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/present-future-arm-aws-gravito...
- guepe 4y ago
  I stand corrected ! Note that is on cost/performance, not raw performance yet. Impressive.
  - coder543 4y ago
    And on raw performance: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=graviton3-amd-intel&num=9 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=graviton... (direct link to the geometric mean performance of the whole test suite) ARM isn't the optimal solution for every application at this time, but anyone who isn't seriously considering it probably needs to update their information.
lallysingh 4y ago
The big savings on graviton come from no hyperthreading. A VCPU on x86 is a hypercore, but a VCPU on graviton is a full core. So you get a full core and its L1 and L2 all to yourself. Usually for cheaper than an x86 VCPU.

There is very little offering and honestly afaik they are not competing on performance except niche applications. It's not that easy to displace x86...

by guepe 4y ago

There is very little offering and honestly afaik they are not competing on performance except niche applications. It's not that easy to displace x86...

colinmhayes 4y ago

As far as I know most AWS services can be run on graviton instances.

StillBored 4y ago

I'm not sure that is accurate for Gravaton3, which appears to be besting intel/amd in a number of cases. So, it doesn't appear there is a clear leader between the amd, intel and gravaton instances. Meaning everyone should be benchmarking their application and picking one. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=graviton3-amd-intel&num=1 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=graviton... Amazon here seems to be leading the Arm technology pack, as they are using a newer generation of CPU, while arm instances on other providers tend to be providing gravaton2 (Neoverse-N1) based instances. I would imagine that gradually changing in the near future as those vendors also upgrade.

canucklady 4y ago

Graviton3 on AWS is better for most applications on a cost/performance basis, and in some cases also on straight latency. Honeycomb has some great blogs about it: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/present-future-arm-aws-graviton-honeycomb/ https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/present-future-arm-aws-gravito...

guepe 4y ago
I stand corrected ! Note that is on cost/performance, not raw performance yet. Impressive.
- coder543 4y ago
  And on raw performance: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=graviton3-amd-intel&num=9 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=graviton... (direct link to the geometric mean performance of the whole test suite) ARM isn't the optimal solution for every application at this time, but anyone who isn't seriously considering it probably needs to update their information.

lallysingh 4y ago

The big savings on graviton come from no hyperthreading. A VCPU on x86 is a hypercore, but a VCPU on graviton is a full core. So you get a full core and its L1 and L2 all to yourself. Usually for cheaper than an x86 VCPU.