Just as Google and Facebook began to introduce customized processor designs into their services, Amazon's AWS also announced earlier at the re:Invent 2018 event held in Las Vegas this year that it would begin to introduce its own processors designed with Arm architecture into its cloud servers.AWS Graviton, thereby providing additional options in servers composed of Intel and AMD processors.
According to Peter DeSantis, vice president of AWS Infrastructure, this AWS Graviton processor, designed with Arm architecture, will provide an additional option for users of AWS cloud server services. It will be available under the name EC2 A1 and can run applications corresponding to Amazon Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Ubuntu operating environments. It is currently being used in Northern Virginia, Ohio, Oregon in the eastern United States, and Ireland in Europe.
However, AWS has not yet provided specific details about AWS Graviton, but its customized design using the 64-bit Arm Neoverse core is expected to provide relatively energy-efficient computing performance.
AWS Graviton was created by Annapurna Labs, which was acquired by Amazon in 2015. Prior to that, it mainly built customized processors for specific computing needs, such as applications in machine learning. Therefore, it is tailored to the needs of AWS cloud computing applications and is expected to provide higher computing efficiency than existing processors.
