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You’re ready to migrate your workloads to the cloud, for all the best reasons: agility, performance, and the ease of managing your environment. But not all cloud transitions are as smooth—or as economical—as you might have heard. Make sure to do your homework to get the full story. Intel® processor-based virtual machines deliver for all your instances.
1. Maximize Performance for All Workloads
In the Amazon cloud (AWS), instances with Intel Xeon processors deliver better performance and come in more shapes and sizes than Graviton. Third Gen Intel Xeon processors outperform Graviton2 in web/Java up to 1.51x1, databases up to 1.53x2, and inference up to 3.84x3. Give your businesses production workloads the flexibility and excellent performance that they need with Intel in the AWS cloud4.
2. Price Performance Leadership
The cloud service bill is too high. Moving to a cloud instance with lower hourly pricing seems like an easy way to bring it down but may cause your performance to suffer. Third Gen Intel Xeon leads Graviton2 in price performance and performance for many common cloud-native, runtime, and web applications5, 6. No discount is worth accepting diminished performance for your critical operations in the cloud.
3. Porting is a Challenging Journey
You may have heard that it’s no big deal to port your code from one architecture to another. However, porting takes time and money. It’s a complicated, intense process. Plus, ARM doesn’t run every software program out there, so when you’re ready to add new functionality from Intel, you’ll be stuck with the limitation of ARM and the long-term cost and hassle of managing multiple code bases.
4. Multicloud Improves Business Stability
No one wants to limit their business agility by locking into a specific solution. Instead, build in flexibility by using common code that runs easily across many vendors and on prem. Intel-based instances ensure compatibility and supportability across multiple cloud solutions to help reduce business risk and keep your options open.
5. Microsoft and Other ISV Applications Run on Intel
Intel has long-standing engineering and business relationships with the leading commercial software providers. That’s true for data center software like SAP and VMware as well as Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server, Dynamics, SharePoint Server, App-V Server, Endpoint Manager Server, and more. Intel processor-based instances are the better choice for crucial enterprise tools like these.
6. Intel Delivers for Demanding Workloads
Choose Intel instances for challenging workloads like artificial intelligence (AI) inferencing and natural language processing (NLP). AWS M6i with Intel:
- Processes up to 3.84x more images per second in ResNet50 than M6g with Graviton2 before optimization3 and up to 8x more with optimization7
- Delivers up to 4.96x higher relative performance in BERT-Large inference than M6g with Graviton2 using INT8 precision8
- Delivers up to 2.04x higher relative performance in BERT-Large inference than M6g with Graviton2 using FP32 precision8
Make faster data-driven decisions and smooth high-traffic peaks on Intel. AWS M6i with Intel:
- Completes up to 1.69x more MySQL new orders per minute than M6g with Graviton29
- Delivers up to 1.53x higher throughput2 and up to 23% better price performance10 on MongoDB than M6g with Graviton2
7. Security Matters
Security is critical, yet Graviton2 doesn’t provide end-to-end application security. With Intel, it’s a fundamental part of the hardware. Intel® SGX11 is the most researched, updated, and battle-tested trusted execution environment (TEE) for data center confidential computing, with the smallest attack surface within the system. Intel® SGX confidential computing technology delivered in Intel 3rd Gen Xeon processors enables application isolation in private memory regions, called enclaves, to help protect code and data while in use.
8. HPC for the Win
Think about your business high-performance computing needs. Are you reaching into your toolbox for LS-DYNA, Relion, Monte Carlo, Ansys Fluent, Converge, Altair RADIOSS, Siemens Star-CCM+, Dassault SIMULIA, or MSC Nastran? They run better on Intel processors today, and we improve their performance with every generation12 to deliver increasing value directly to your business. Intel is the better choice for HPC.
9. Scale to the Skies
There are over 50,000 Intel-based instance types across multiple cloud platforms.13 That makes it easy to scale. And when you need the latest features, like integrated AI and crypto acceleration, that’s easy to scale too. These advanced platforms also include massive memory capacity, fast networking and storage with PCIe Gen4, plus 39% more memory bandwidth14 than previous generations. When you’ve got that kind of scalability in your cloud instances, the sky’s the limit.
10. Intel Is the Proven Platform for Your Workload, in Any Cloud
When you specify Intel processor-based instances, you know who you’re dealing with. We’re the trusted provider of more than a billion cores to power the cloud, with a vast ecosystem of software and hardware solution partners that have tested, validated, and optimized their offerings on Intel® processors and platforms. It just works.
Product and Performance Information
See www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config [28].
See www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config [103].
See www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config [77].
Intel® Xeon® based AWS M6i instance outperforms M6g Graviton2 instance by up to 1.22x for SPECrate2017 measurements at 16 vCPU size and 64GB memory capacity per instance. See www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config [101] and [102] for configuration details. It is not shown here because it does not reflect actual processor usage of web/Java, database, and inference applications and workloads. For more information about meaningful benchmarks for IT purchasing decisions, see https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/cloud-computing/benchmarking-for-better-performance-brief.html.
See www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config [28]. Intel® Xeon® M6i delivers 1.21x better price performance than Graviton2 and delivers up to 1.51x better performance on Java Server latency bound throughput in 16 vCPU comparison. Pricing information from US East-2 Region, November 2, 2021 https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/.
See www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config [30]. Intel® Xeon® M6i delivers 1.19x better price performance than Graviton2 and delivers up to 1.48x better performance for WordPress in 16 vCPU comparison. Pricing information from US East Region, October 5, 2021 https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/.
Source: Serve The Home study, “AWS EC2 m6i Instances Why Acceleration Matters” https://www.servethehome.com/aws-ec2-m6-instance-intel-ice-lake-and-graviton-2-acceleration-matters.
See www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config [78].
See www.intel.com/3gen-xeon-config [103]. Intel® Xeon® M6i delivers 1.23x better price performance than M6g Graviton2 and delivers up to 1.53x higher relative performance max throughput per second on MongoDB stress in 16 vCPU with 64GB memory capacity per instance comparison. Pricing information from US East-2 Region, November 22, 2021. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/.
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For example, up to 1.52x higher manufacturing performance on 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform vs. prior gen. See intel.com/performanceindex (105).
Up to 39% more bandwidth with Intel® Optane™ PMem 200 series 512 GB module vs. Intel® Optane™ PMem 100 series 512 GB module. See intel.com/performanceindex (14).