AWS re:Invent 2025 - Unlock Cost Efficiency with AWS Graviton Savings Dashboard (CMP352)

Unlocking Cost Efficiency with the AWS Graviton Savings Dashboard

Overview of AWS Graviton and the Savings Dashboard

• AWS Graviton is a family of ARM-based processors designed by AWS for cost-effective and energy-efficient cloud computing.
• Graviton offers up to 40% better price-performance and 60% greater energy efficiency compared to x86-based instances.
• The Graviton Savings Dashboard is a powerful visualization tool that provides detailed insights into current and potential Graviton savings.
• The dashboard is part of the AWS Cloud Intelligence framework and leverages Amazon QuickSight for advanced analytics.
• It offers comprehensive visibility across multiple AWS services including EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, and OpenSearch.

Key Features of the Graviton Savings Dashboard

1. Realized Savings: Displays the actual Graviton savings already captured by the organization.
2. Potential Opportunities: Highlights untapped Graviton savings potential across the infrastructure.
3. Detailed Breakdown: Provides a granular view to prioritize optimization efforts.

Additional Dashboard Capabilities

1. Summary View: Consolidated snapshot of Graviton adoption and savings status across the organization.
2. Graviton Generation Comparison: Helps identify the optimal Graviton processor generation for each workload.
3. Performance-based Cost Modeling: Projects potential savings based on real-world performance data.
4. Tagging Visibility: Allows organizing and tracking Graviton initiatives by project, team, and business units.

Demonstration of the Dashboard in Action

1. Current Usage and Savings: Showed 20K in monthly Graviton savings, but only 26.3% Graviton coverage.
2. Graviton Opportunity: Identified a potential 61.5K in monthly Graviton-based savings by migrating to comparable instances.
3. Performance Gains: Factored in a 15% performance improvement, increasing the total potential savings to 103K per month.
4. Targeting Savings: Used the detailed breakdown table to identify specific workloads and instance types to target for Graviton migration.
5. Service-specific Tabs: Demonstrated how the dashboard provides customized analysis for other AWS services like RDS, ElastiCache, and OpenSearch.
6. Graviton Mapping: Provided a comprehensive reference for mapping existing instances to their Graviton counterparts.

Business Impact and Real-world Applications

• The Graviton Savings Dashboard empowers organizations to unlock significant cost savings and sustainability benefits by optimizing their cloud infrastructure with Graviton.
• By providing detailed insights and a clear roadmap, the dashboard helps organizations maximize their Graviton adoption and realize the full potential of these ARM-based processors.
• The dashboard's flexibility in accommodating performance gains and granular tagging visibility enables organizations to make informed decisions and track their Graviton initiatives across the enterprise.

Conclusion and Next Steps

• The Graviton Savings Dashboard is a comprehensive tool that helps organizations identify, quantify, and act on their Graviton savings opportunities.
• Attendees were encouraged to deploy the dashboard in their own environments and leverage the detailed deployment steps provided.
• The presenters offered to be available at the Compute booth during re:Invent to provide hands-on demos and answer any questions.