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I just looked it up - that is a mistaken statistic. 50% of their CPUs are not Arm, but AWS has 50% of all server-side Arm CPUs. "But that total is beaten by ju
by droideqa 2y ago
I just looked it up - that is a mistaken statistic. 50% of their CPUs are not Arm, but AWS has 50% of all server-side Arm CPUs.
"But that total is beaten by just one company – Amazon – which has slightly above 50 percent of all Arm server CPUs in the world deployed in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) datacenters, said the analyst."[0]
[0]: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/08/amazon_arm_servers/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/08/amazon_arm_servers/
- Twirrim 2y agoIn part that'll be because they mandated every service team migrate to ARM. Service teams had to have extensive justification to avoid it. With good reason, too, the reason for the effort was the significant cost savings.
- everfrustrated 2y agoAnd one presumes also gave them incredible leverage on negotiating future chip buys from AMD/Intel. There must be so much fear of not getting their chips into AWS by now that I can only imagine they're selling near cost.