Achieve Better Decision Support Performance with AWS C5 Instances Featuring 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and Granulate

Description

Decision support system (DSS) workloads help organizations collect and analyze data to derive insights that drive many critical business decisions. Companies choosing to run DSS workloads in the cloud require instances that deliver excellent performance. We used a DSS benchmark to evaluate the performance of several Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 cloud instance types. First, we compared C5 instances, enabled by 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, with and without Granulate Real-Time Continuous Optimization (Granulate), a workload optimizer that can boost Intel processor performance and increase productivity. Next, we compared the C5 instance with Granulate to a C6g instance using Graviton processors.