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AWS developed two generations of an in-house ARM chip (Graviton), which I think is cheaper for an equivalent power to an x86 instance. Cloudflare has also begun
by cantaloupe 4y ago
AWS developed two generations of an in-house ARM chip (Graviton), which I think is cheaper for an equivalent power to an x86 instance. Cloudflare has also begun switching to ARM, for 57% more performance per watt:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/designing-edge-servers-with-arm-cpus/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/designing-edge-servers-with-arm-...
- CameronNemo 4y agoIIRC GCP is using AMD EPYC. Not sure about Azure.
- jhickok 4y agoAzure uses Intel, AMD and Ampere. You implicitly select your CPU when you pick the virtual machine family: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/vm-naming-conventions#naming-convention-explanation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/vm-...
- saagarjha 4y agoGCP offers instances on many processors, including AMD EPYC: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/amd-epyc-processors-come-to-google-and-to-google-cloud https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/amd-epyc-proc.... Here's another one: https://cloud.google.com/intel/ https://cloud.google.com/intel/