Who knew? Well, I didn’t until today.

They are called AWS Graviton 2 and they claim it is up to 40% better performance and up to 20% less cost. This is very interesting idea, it kind of reminds me of hosting web apps on Raspberry Pi, but on much better hardware.

Sources:

  • https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-graviton2-what-it-means-for-arm-in-the-data-center-cloud-enterprise-aws/
  • https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-graviton2-arm-against-intel-and-amd
  • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-m6g-ec2-instances-powered-by-arm-based-aws-graviton2/

That's it for this post, thanks for reading!