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AWS Graviton: Delivering the Best Price-Performance for Your Workloads
Introduction
- The session covers how AWS Graviton enables the best price-performance for customer workloads.
- Presenters include Sudarshan Ramesh (AWS), Ali Sidi (AWS), and Sujit Katakam (Robin Hood).
AWS's Custom Chip Journey
- AWS has been investing in building custom chips across data center infrastructure, core compute, and machine learning.
- Reasons for building custom chips include specialization, innovation, and security.
- The Graviton journey started in 2018 with Graviton 1, and each generation has pushed performance, capabilities, and efficiency.
Graviton Generations
- Graviton 2 (launched in 2019) delivered up to 40% better price-performance over other instances.
- Graviton 3 (launched in 2021) provided 25% higher performance and 2x improvement in floating-point performance over Graviton 2.
- Graviton 4 (latest generation) has 50% more cores, 2x the L2 cache, and 75% more bandwidth than Graviton 3.
Graviton 4 Instances
- Graviton 4 instances are available in 8th-generation compute, memory, and general-purpose families, offering up to 30% higher performance than Graviton 3.
- The new I8 storage-optimized instance provides up to 65% better real-time storage performance.
- The upcoming network-optimized Graviton 4 instance is expected to be available soon.
Customer Adoption and Use Cases
- Customers across different industries and sizes are adopting Graviton, with 95% of the top 1000 EC2 customers using Graviton.
- Use cases include gaming, observability, databases, electronic design automation (EDA), and more.
- Customers are also leveraging Graviton to reduce their carbon footprint, with up to 60% less energy consumption.
Graviton 4 Processor Details
- Graviton 4 has 96 CPU cores (50% more than Graviton 3), a larger L2 cache, and support for multi-socket coherency.
- The processor is designed to optimize performance for real-world workloads, with improvements to the front-end and branch prediction.
- Graviton 4 supports the Arm v9 architecture, which includes new instructions for branch target identification and ROP mitigation.
Graviton 4 Performance
- Graviton 4 delivers up to 40% higher performance than Graviton 3 for workloads like MySQL, Nginx, and Grails.
- It also provides 20-30% better performance for machine learning frameworks like PyTorch.
- Over the past four generations, Graviton has seen around a 4x performance improvement.
Robin Hood's Journey with Graviton
- Robin Hood, a financial services company, adopted Graviton to leverage the benefits of price-performance, sustainability, and innovation.
- The adoption journey involved a POC phase, adding Arm64 support in the build-release-deploy pipeline, and a phased migration approach.
- Key challenges and solutions included cross-compiling native code, pre-building Python wheels, and using multi-architecture image indexes.
- Robin Hood continues to optimize resource utilization and explore Graviton 4 for further gains.
Resources and Best Practices
- The Graviton Technical Guide, Graviton Fast Start program, and Porting Advisor tool provide guidance for adopting Graviton.
- Recommendations include leveraging managed services, using the latest software stacks, and utilizing performance analysis tools like AP Perf.