What is AWS Graviton Processor?
Hello Guys, I recently started using AWS Graviton processor-based instances and found they are very smooth and cost-effective. In this article, I am going to discuss the benefits of using AWS Graviton processor.
Let’s Start…
Quick overview
AWS Graviton processor is released by Amazon in 2018. It is based on the Arm architecture.
It supports Arm-based applications such as web servers, caching fleets, distributed data centers, and containerized microservices. AWS mainly created this for saving the cost, increasing performance, enhancing networking, and effective CPU power.
AWS Graviton processor family includes Graviton, Graviton2, and Graviton3 three generations. 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.
Why do you need to use AWS Graviton Processors?
If you are working on web servers, log processing, video encoding, electronic design automation, and machine learning-based applications in this case you can leverage Graviton processors.
Let’s talk about the benefits of Graviton processors:-
Cost-Effective:
Graviton processors are based on the Arm architecture. That means they are likely to be System on a Chip (SoC). That further translates to lower power consumption costs while offering satisfying performance to most customers.
Effective CPU power:
AWS Graviton processors offer higher performance over traditional architecture. you can easily run CPU-based machine learning applications on them.
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.
Extensive software support:
AWS Graviton processors are supported by many Linux operating systems including Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE, and Ubuntu.
Conclusion
Hope this article gives you a quick sight of AWS Graviton processors. In the next series of this article, I'll discuss the migration of existing workloads to AWS Graviton-based instances.
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