Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world

Re:Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the w... by adfskghnmionio on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @09:17AM (#37062221)

>My employer is moving workloads to ARM on AWS as it’s much better for price/perf

It's a fool's errand to try to reason about Amazon's pricing. We don't have figures about how much a Graviton costs to build or to run, but we do know AWS has staggeringly high margins across the board. They have huge headroom to make price cuts if they want their homegrown solution to win.

And perhaps it is better! I have no doubt it's a good CPU. But we can't infer that from pricing.

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Re:Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the w... by TechBro8615 on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @10:26AM (#37063171)

It could also be simultaneously true that it's cheaper to rent ARM servers from AWS than it is to rent Intel servers from them, and that AWS makes more money renting you the ARM servers. In fact, given they're developed in house, it might even be likely that the ARM margins are higher for them than their Intel margins.

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Re:Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the w... by minimaul on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @11:21AM (#37064071)

Quite right - you can't infer performance from pricing.

We did some assessments of how well our applications ran on ARM and x86 based AWS instances, and quite simply it costs us less to serve the same quantities of end user traffic using Amazon's ARM instances compared to the x86 ones.

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