Good question! I read two different Amazon press releases on this but still had to come here for the answer. It seems strange they don't want to advertise the ISA of a compute product - does marketing think it might scare people away?
Awhile back I was researching cloud instances for performance, And I noticed that AWS didn't have the latest generations of AMD/Intel. Which are far superior to Graviton 4.
It seems obvious to me that AWS using their market dominance to shift workloads to Graviton.
In Amazon's Graviton 5 PR they note that over half of all new compute capacity added to AWS over the past three years has been Graviton-based. That's an amazing stat.
It really is incredible how ARM basically commoditized processors (in a good way).
The free tier for EC2 expires after a year, and the eligible t-family instances have low resources and extreme CPU throttling if you try to do anything more serious with them.
No benchmarks. No FLOPs. No comparison to commodity hardware. I hate the cloud servers. "9 is faster than 8 which is faster than 7 which is faster than 6, ..., which is faster than 1, which has unknown performance".
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AWS introduces Graviton5–the company's most powerful and efficient CPU (14 comments)
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/
It seems obvious to me that AWS using their market dominance to shift workloads to Graviton.
I need a reference point so I can compare it to Intel/AMD and Apple's ARM cpus.
Otherwise it is buzzwords and superlatives. I need numbers so I can understand.
It really is incredible how ARM basically commoditized processors (in a good way).
Don't they still offer free nano EC2s? This is not a better price than $0.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Xz-xq-d4jKk