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Re: Amazon EC2 M9g Instances

#12

Post by dtf »

01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #2

So these are aarch64, right?

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?

Re: Amazon EC2 M9g Instances

#13

Post by yonisto »

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.

Re: Amazon EC2 M9g Instances

#14

Post by xeornet »

yonisto wrote: post #13

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.

I think Graviton would still be much more energy efficient though? (I'm not sure)

I believe the main motivator for AWS is efficiency, not performance. $ of income per watt spend is much better for them on Graviton.

Re: Amazon EC2 M9g Instances

#15

Post by fweimer »

dtf wrote: post #12
01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #2

So these are aarch64, right?

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?

It seems they don't document the ISA for any instance types. This could be deliberate (and unrelated to marketing) in case they decide to pull features from the instance types in a microcode update. Without any ISA specifics, previous customer commitments towards instance types would still apply.

Re: Amazon EC2 M9g Instances

#16

Post by zokier »

dtf wrote: post #12
01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #2

So these are aarch64, right?

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?

At this point I think they just assume that everyone who cares already know that graviton=arm

Re: Amazon EC2 M9g Instances

#17

Post by zokier »

fweimer wrote: post #15
dtf wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It seems they don't document the ISA for any instance types. This could be deliberate (and unrelated to marketing) in case they decide to pull features from the instance types in a microcode update. Without any ISA specifics, previous customer commitments towards instance types would still apply.

They list what specific cpus you get for each instance type, see eg https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ec2/latest/instancetypes/gp.html

Re: Amazon EC2 M9g Instances

#18

Post by zokier »

yonisto wrote: post #13

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.

At what point was that true? For example right now ec2 has granite rapids cpus available which are very much the latest and greatest from intel.
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