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It’s only been a few weeks since Amazon announced that it would offer AMD Epyc servers as an option for Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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Now the company is announcing a new type of hardware platform for its just-created A1 instances the Amazon Graviton processor.
Instances that use scripting code can move their applications to A1 without a rewrite, but if your code runs natively you’ll need to rebuild it for an A1 instance.
The Graviton CPU
Here’s what we know about the Graviton to date. It’s based on the Cortex-A72, with a maximum clock speed of 2.3GHz. AWS VP James Hamilton writes:These new instances feature up to 45% lower costs and will join the 170 different instance types supported by AWS, ranging from the Intel-based z1d instances which deliver a sustained all core frequency of 4.0 GHz, a 12 TB memory instance, the F1 instance family with up to 8 Field Programmable Gate Arrays, P3 instances with NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs, and the new M5a and R5a instances with AMD EPYC Processors. No other cloud offering even comes close.