{"id":58406,"date":"2023-09-29T09:01:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T03:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/?p=58406"},"modified":"2023-10-03T09:16:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T03:46:15","slug":"aws-graviton-traditional-x86-instances-performance-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/aws-graviton-traditional-x86-instances-performance-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Graviton & Traditional x86 Instances: Performance Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

AWS Graviton<\/b> is a 64-bit ARM-based CPU designed by AWS for their cloud instances\/resources and launched first at Re-invent 2018. Graviton CPUs are not available outside of the world as it is used within the AWS Data centers only.<\/span><\/p>\n

Traditionally, we used x86 AMD-based CPU for our workloads, which is designed and developed by Intel and has a good share in the market nowadays, but Now, with Graviton CPUs, there are significant optimization differences that help us to reduce the Cost, Performance, etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Below is a short introduction about the\u00a0 x86 and Graviton Instances about their nature, workload support, request handling, etc. :\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25cf\u00a0 x86 instances: <\/b>x86 CPU Instances are AMD-based architecture, which is a good fit to run our general workloads like Web servers, Microservices, Containerization, and small, scalable applications. These instances provide a variety of workload support like enterprise application Content Management Service application, and it is also ideal for Database workloads due to its high core and memory. It can handle multiple concurrent requests and queries at a time with good performance.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25cf Graviton Instances<\/b>: <\/b>Graviton instances are ARM-based custom-designed <\/span>instances provided by AWS. These are 40% cheaper than traditional x86 instances. These are the alternate solutions of x86-based instances. Graviton instances are a good fit for power and cost-efficient workloads. ARM-based processors are commonly used in Mobiles, and we are aware of their performance and scalability. Graviton-based instances provide a variety of instance options that are optimized for various workloads.<\/p>\n

As we see above, the overview of both x86 and Graviton instances and when we start our Graviton migration journey, we have multiple concerns about efficiency, scalability performance, etc. We want to ensure that our workload runs with good performance as well as minimal cost.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, keeping things in mind about all concerns and performance queries, below are some of the points that help us to understand Graviton Instances :\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25cf vCPU:<\/b><\/h2>\n

\u25cf Graviton<\/b>: Graviton processors showed good performance per vCPU core when there are larger threads assigned on the CPU core accordingly. It gives 10-15% advantages over the Intel(x86) Processors, even in high concurrency scenarios. Graviton advantage could be 70000 transactions per second over the Intel traditional x86 processors in real numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25cf x86<\/b>: Traditional x86 processors showed fast performance when it comes to a single core handling the single threads or the smaller number of threads assigned accordingly. It has better performance with the low concurrency scenarios, and when it has some additional free vCPU, it could be better and has advantages up to 35%.<\/span><\/p>\n