![]() Though in preview and not generally available, the Graviton 3 processor provides 25% overall improved performance for most workloads. Another way that AWS improved the performance of the Graviton 3 was by adding 50% more memory bandwidth than the previous Graviton 2 processor. So instead of increasing the number of cycles per second, they have increased the amount of work you can do each cycle from five to eight instructions per cycle, called instruction execution parallelism. So how did AWS efficiently increase the performance of a Graviton core? The answer- make the core wider! A wider core can do more work per processing cycle. More power consumption produces more heat which means lower efficiency. ![]() While most chip makers seek to amaze with sticker stats like processor frequency and core count, they are not the end goal and consume much more power. With the addition of the Nitro SSD, AWS offers the EBS io2 Block Express, which provides 260,000 IOPS with consistent sub-millisecond latency.ĪWS is laser-focused on providing performance improvements on real-world customer workloads. While Nitro is not a new product announcement, it was a large portion of Peter’s keynote, as he mentions, “Nitro is the reason why AWS began developing in-house silicon.” The Nitro controller allows consistency across multiple storages, processors, and networking vendors, providing a seamless experience for AWS customers. It’s with those key points that Peter set the stage for his keynote foretelling, AWS will always be a leader in innovation. Peter reminds us that the key table stakes for all AWS services have always been: Security, Availability, Elasticity, Performance, Cost, and Sustainability. The only underlying storage medium for EC2 was ephemeral, and there was only one instance type available. “It’s amazing to see how far we’ve come from those humble beginnings,” said DeSantis as he recounted when AWS was initially a single region and availability zones were not even a concept yet. ![]() ![]() Cloud computing at this point wasn’t in our general vocabulary, but as we all know, things would soon change. Fifteen years ago, AWS was initially born as S3, followed by SQS and EC2 a few months later. On Wednesday, December 1st Peter DeSantis, Senior Vice President, Utility Computing and Apps at Amazon Web Services (AWS), took the stage for his 10th re:invent keynote presentation, with a trip down memory lane. ![]()
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