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Overview
- The session discusses how to effectively manage infrastructure at scale and in production, and covers the benefits and trade-offs of modernizing.
- The speakers are Ram Peddibhotla (AMD), Niall Mullen (Netflix), and Madhuri Racherla (Pinterest).
Why AMD?
- AMD's mission is to drive high-performance computing across various domains, including the data center.
- AMD offers the broadest portfolio of high-performance compute engines for the data center, including CPUs, GPUs, DPUs, and FPGAs.
- The 7A instance family on AWS, based on AMD's 4th-gen EPYC processor (Genoa), delivers a 50% performance improvement over the previous generation.
- Comparing the M7A (Genoa-based) instance to the M6I (Intel Ice Lake-based) instance, the M7A instance is 2x faster, allowing customers to use a smaller instance footprint and achieve 37% OpEx savings.
Modernization with AMD Instances
- There are two AMD instance families in EC2: 7A instances (Genoa-based) for latency-sensitive, performance-hungry applications, and Milan-based instances for price-oriented cost savings.
- Migrating to AMD instances is easy due to x86 compatibility, requiring little to no porting or optimization.
- Modernizing with AMD instances involves moving from legacy instances to newer, more performant and cost-efficient AMD instances, leading to a slimmer instance footprint and reinvesting the OpEx savings into the business.
Netflix's Experience
- Netflix has a dense and large compute footprint to support its extensive infrastructure, including the website, personalization, encoding, and advertising.
- Adopting the AMD Genoa-based 7A instances has provided significant performance improvements across various workloads, such as personalization and encoding, enabling them to increase CPU utilization and achieve up to 3x gains in throughput.
- Genoa instances have also helped Netflix improve startup time and rapid scalability, a key priority for their dynamic business.
Pinterest's Experience
- As a platform with over 537 million monthly users and 1.5 billion pins saved per week, Pinterest relies heavily on its powerful infrastructure on AWS.
- The adoption of AMD Genoa-based M7A instances has enabled Pinterest to achieve a 35-40% improvement in price-performance by vertically right-sizing their workloads.
- The smooth migration process, from understanding workload requirements to monitoring performance, allowed Pinterest to optimize their infrastructure cost and performance without impacting their services.
Conclusion
- Adopting AMD instances, whether performance-driven (7A) or price-oriented (Milan), allows customers to do more with less, reducing their OpEx and reinvesting the savings into their core business.
- The ease of migration and x86 compatibility make the adoption of AMD instances a straightforward and logical choice for modernization.
- Customers like Netflix and Pinterest have demonstrated the significant benefits of leveraging AMD instances to drive cost efficiencies and performance improvements.
