AWS releases custom Arm processor to add EC2 M6g instance type

Amazon Web Service easily chose a new instance type, which is driven by its second-generation custom ARM CPU-- Gravity 2.

As we pointed out at the time of release, the Graviton2 is built in a 7 nm process and provides a 64-bit Arm neaverse N1 CPU core, each kernel has a 1MB L2 cache, and each chip has a 32MB shared L3 cache.

The newly introduced instance type is EC2 M6g, which has eight variants and can run 1 to 64 vCPU.

Instance size

Virtual central processing unit

Memory (GiB)

Instance storage

Network bandwidth (Gbps)

EBS bandwidth (Mbps)

M6g . Medium.

One

four

EBS only

Ten at the most.

As high as 4750.

Order _ bottom border _ right border _ left 'style=' text-align: left; vertical alignment: middle; background: rgb (61Power61); color: White; padding: 1px 4px border style: solid; border color: rgb (176176176);' m6g. 28 EBS is only as high as 10 up to 4750 6g. Xlarge 416 EBS is only as high as 10 and as high as 4750 6g. 2x 832 EBS only as high as 10 as high as 4750 6g. 4x 1664 EBS is only as high as 104750 6g. 8x big 32128 EBS only EBS129000 6g. 12x is 48199. 500m6g.16x large 64256 EBS only EBS2518000AWS recommends that the new instance type is best suited for "application servers, micro services, game servers, medium data storage, and cache queues." In addition, early users such as Netflix have proved this, saying: "We have tested new M6g instances using the industry standard LMbench and some Java benchmarks, which is 50 per cent higher than M5 instances."

The M5 instance runs the Intel Xeon platinum 81.75 million processor.

Now, AWS has its own chip, which can beat Xerox in some applications. This is the weaker instance type it plans for Gravity 2. M-series examples are general computing platforms. Cloud Giant is also committed to using its chips for C-series high-performance instances and R-series memory optimization instances. "more NVMe-based local SSD block-level local storage variants will be introduced in the coming months," AWS said.

Although cheap cloud servers are cute, they will be useless if the code your business depends on can't run on it. Although a lot of code runs on Arm and Intel does a lot of work in building ecosystems, few enterprise products are ported to Arm, and enterprise products like VMware's ESXi haven't found that customers really like the architecture. If you can save some money, you won't bother those who are addicted to open source software, and you won't go to stores like Netflix for custom development.

Therefore, the launch of EC2 M6g instance is an important milestone for Arm to become an enterprise platform. But this story obviously has a long way to go.