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AWS Graviton2
Firemind work with a wide variety of businesses to use the Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors for their mixed workloads. Specifically, we use AWS Lambda functions alongside the exceptional performance of Arm/Graviton2 processors to save significant costs that utilise the enhanced architecture.
Overview
AWS Graviton processors are designed by AWS to deliver the best price performance for your cloud workloads running in Amazon EC2.
AWS Graviton2 processors deliver a major leap in performance and capabilities over first-generation AWS Graviton processors. Graviton2-based instances provide the best price performance for workloads in Amazon EC2. Graviton2-based instances support a wide range of general purpose, burstable, compute-optimised, memory-optimised, storage-optimised, and accelerated computing workloads including application servers, microservices, high-performance computing (HPC), CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, video encoding, electronic design automation, gaming, open-source databases, and in-memory caches.
Many AWS services, including Amazon Aurora, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon EMR, AWS Lambda, and AWS Fargate, also support Graviton2-based instances for a fully managed experience with significant price performance benefits.
AWS Graviton3 processors are the latest in the AWS Graviton processor family. They provide up to 25% better compute performance, up to 2x higher floating-point performance, and up to 2x faster cryptographic workload performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors. AWS Graviton3 processors deliver up to 3x better performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors for ML workloads, including support for bfloat16. They also support DDR5 memory that provides 50% more memory bandwidth compared to DDR4. AWS Graviton3E processors deliver up to 35% higher vector-instruction performance compared to AWS Graviton3 processors. This improvement provides higher performance benefits for HPC applications.
Best price performance for a broad range of workloads
AWS Graviton2-based general purpose burstable (T4g), general purpose (M6g), compute-optimised (C6g), and memory-optimised (R6g, X2gd) EC2 instances and their variants with NVMe-based SSD storage deliver up to 40% better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances for a broad spectrum of workloads such as application servers, microservices, video encoding, high-performance computing, electronic design automation, compression, gaming, open-source databases, in-memory caches, and CPU-based machine learning inference.
Extensive software support
AWS Graviton processors are supported by many Linux operating systems including Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE, and Ubuntu. Many popular applications and services for security, monitoring and management, containers, and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) from AWS and software partners also support AWS Graviton-based instances. The AWS Graviton Ready program provides customers with certified solutions from partner software vendors that can be used on AWS Graviton-based instances.
Enhanced security for cloud applications
AWS Graviton processors feature key capabilities that enable you to run cloud native applications securely, and at scale. AWS Graviton3 processors feature always-on memory encryption, dedicated caches for every vCPU, and support for pointer authentication. EC2 instances powered by AWS Graviton processors are built on the AWS Nitro System that features the AWS Nitro security chip with dedicated hardware and software for security functions, and support for encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes by default.
Available with managed AWS Services
AWS Graviton-based instances are also available in popular managed AWS services such as Amazon Aurora, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon EMR, AWS Lambda, and AWS Fargate. These services deliver the price performance benefits of AWS Graviton processors while providing a fully managed experience.
You can view the full range of on-demand pricing by visiting the calculator on the following link. Prices are in-line with Amazon EC2 projected usage:
AWS Graviton3 processors are the latest in the AWS Graviton processor family. They provide up to 25% better compute performance, up to 2x higher floating-point performance, and up to 2x faster cryptographic workload performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors. AWS Graviton3 processors deliver up to 3x better performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors for ML workloads, including support for bfloat16. They also support DDR5 memory that provides 50% more memory bandwidth compared to DDR4. AWS Graviton3E processors deliver up to 35% higher vector-instruction performance compared to AWS Graviton3 processors. This improvement provides higher performance benefits for HPC applications.
Best price performance for a broad range of workloads
AWS Graviton2-based general purpose burstable (T4g), general purpose (M6g), compute-optimised (C6g), and memory-optimised (R6g, X2gd) EC2 instances and their variants with NVMe-based SSD storage deliver up to 40% better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances for a broad spectrum of workloads such as application servers, microservices, video encoding, high-performance computing, electronic design automation, compression, gaming, open-source databases, in-memory caches, and CPU-based machine learning inference.
Extensive software support
AWS Graviton processors are supported by many Linux operating systems including Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE, and Ubuntu. Many popular applications and services for security, monitoring and management, containers, and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) from AWS and software partners also support AWS Graviton-based instances. The AWS Graviton Ready program provides customers with certified solutions from partner software vendors that can be used on AWS Graviton-based instances.
Enhanced security for cloud applications
AWS Graviton processors feature key capabilities that enable you to run cloud native applications securely, and at scale. AWS Graviton3 processors feature always-on memory encryption, dedicated caches for every vCPU, and support for pointer authentication. EC2 instances powered by AWS Graviton processors are built on the AWS Nitro System that features the AWS Nitro security chip with dedicated hardware and software for security functions, and support for encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes by default.
Available with managed AWS Services
AWS Graviton-based instances are also available in popular managed AWS services such as Amazon Aurora, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon EMR, AWS Lambda, and AWS Fargate. These services deliver the price performance benefits of AWS Graviton processors while providing a fully managed experience.
You can view the full range of on-demand pricing by visiting the calculator on the following link. Prices are in-line with Amazon EC2 projected usage:
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