Today we are launching EC2 instances powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton Processors. Built around Arm cores and making extensive use of custom-built silicon, the A1 instances are optimized for performance and cost. They are a great fit for scale-out workloads where you can share the load across a group of smaller instances. This includes containerized microservices, web servers, development environments, and caching fleets.
Interesting to see Amazon design its own ARM core specifically for its own product.
Amazon does its own server hardware, as does google and facebook. It kind of makes sense for their scale to be able to get ROI on custom cpu development.
Apple would as well, if they were any good at servers or cloud services.
I thought Apple had been designing their own ARM processors for years, now.
By which I mean (Whilst demonstrating utter failage at OSNews) the Apple A6/”Swift” processor introduced in 2012.
Yeah, obviously apple does make their own arm based cpus for consumer electronics. But it has no server business or cloud business that could justify building servers for those markets. Sadly, they also have the most advanced arm processors. If their arm division was a separate company, it could do very well in that arena.
Yeah. There’s me failing at reading comprehension again…
There *may* be some servers at the back end for Apple TV – but then that may even be controlled by a third party. (Then again, this is Apple)
Processors, yes. Server hardware, not so much… their efforts are, as far as anyone knows, entirely focused on mobile devices.
I have argued that iCloud Server would be the best volume for them to sustain an Apple ARM CPU used in Mac Pro and iMac. But it is clear Apple isn’t interested in Mac Pro or its server side business.
Amazon has made custom silicon with ARM-designed A72 cores.
It is not quite the level of Apple, Qualcomm or Samsung which are now able to design their own ARM CPUs.
I believe Qualcomm and Samsung have both gone back to using Arm cores. They market them like they are original designs, but most of the specs I’ve seen indicate they are Cortex derivatives.
Who isn’t doing their own arm cores?
It makes sense, it’s actually long overdue.
Semiaccurate has been hosted on arm servers since before anyone knew, wtf…..Charlie left…..
It really doesn’t mean anything for intel, I don’t think it means much for Amazon.
Amazon, they will continue to try things, like drone delivery and ride sharing.
Intel has been on the chopping block for a long time, remember how many times we all wished the iPhone was done for?? This is hopefully the year!! We got em!! I feel like John Oliver when he catches trump spilling a big fat lie.
My question is why they didn’t go further?
They make enough money to allow Bezos to work on moonshots (literally), why don’t they go ahead and design their own architecture as well? They could probably optimize their own architecture to really complement their own Oracle-replacement database.