{"id":36877,"date":"2018-11-07T13:20:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T13:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=7f74ff77f6f1d1240d485c31cbc00f24"},"modified":"2018-11-07T13:20:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T13:20:25","slug":"amd-launches-on-aws-and-instantly-undercuts-intel-by-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/amd-launches-on-aws-and-instantly-undercuts-intel-by-10\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD launches on AWS and instantly undercuts Intel by 10%"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Tim Danton<\/a><\/span>
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7 Nov, 2018<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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AMD announced a double whammy at its Next Horizon event in San Francisco: first by announcing EPYC processor-based instances were now available on AWS, and second by undercutting Intel Xeon-based instances by 10%.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal with EPYC is to reach the largest number of users possible, and the cloud is the tip of that sphere,\u201d said AMD president and CEO, Dr Lisa Su. \u201cTo do that, we must partner with the number one cloud service provider in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

That partner is of course Amazon, with the company\u2019s vice president of computing services, Matt Garman, joining Dr Su on stage at Next Horizon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we think about our compute platforms, there are a couple of things that are important to our customers,\u201d said Garman. \u201cThe very first thing is security, reliability and performance, and AMD is great on all of those fronts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second thing that many customers come to AWS for is choice,\u201d he added. \u201cWe want to be the compute platform for the world, we want to support every single workload out there, and for that our customers need a broad range of capability.\u201d<\/p>\n

But this was all a warm-up to AMD\u2019s big advantage over Intel: value for money. \u201cBut the final thing is frankly cost. I talk to a lot of customers, and never have I talked to a customer who wasn\u2019t interested in lower prices.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel the same way,\u201d quipped Dr Su.<\/p>\n

In practice, that means AWS customers in a number of regions, including Europe, can switch to AMD-based R5 sand M5 instances via the AWS Management Console or AWS Command Line Interface.<\/p>\n

Amazon says T3 instances will be available \u201cin a couple of weeks\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the cool things about the cloud is that you can go and get them today,\u201d said Garman. \u201cIt\u2019s really easy. It\u2019s a simple API call to launch an instance. You can use the exact same instances you use today, you can use the exact same scripts.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd one of the great things for our customers is that simply by making that change and switching, they can instantly save 10% on their compute costs.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Danton<\/p>\n

7 Nov, 2018 <\/p>\n

AMD announced a double whammy at its Next Horizon event in San Francisco: first by announcing EPYC processor-based instances were now available on AWS, and second by undercutting Intel Xeon-based …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36878,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36877\/revisions\/36878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}