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AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors

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26 pointsjhealy12 comments

I looked into Graviton 2, ECS, and Fargate about a year ago. It works as advertised and for simple workloads it was 1/4 the price of anything I could get from Azure at the time.

I have since consolidated my infrastructure in Azure but the Graviton 2, ECS and Fargate stuff was neat.

The UI was A bit clunky, lots of clicks but the feature set is well thought out. Nice deployment options and exactly what I'd expect from a cloud provider.

That is nice, but where is Graviton3? Graviton2 is two years old by now, it can hardly compete on performance and power any longer.

Interesting take, what metrics are you using for this conclusion?

I mean it was pretty competitive almost two years ago, but AMD made a huge leap since then. Not sure why saying a two year old CPU is outdated is a controversial take.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-grav...

I'ma little confused - the conclusion was this

> In terms of value, the Graviton2 seemingly ends up with top grades and puts the competition to shame

Also, two years it's not very old in the cloud space. Takes time to ramp up a new instance type

One thing to remember is that cloud people are usually most concerned with price / performance. This is especially true with Fargate, where these are almost always running in an auto-scaling friendly scenario and usually things like RAM and I/O are at least as important as pure CPU.

Looking at things in terms of dollars / hour for your app tends to soften out the outdated impact unless you have a very compute-heavy workload.

I didn’t say your take was outdated. I said it was interesting and was curious to know more.

Why does it matter if it's significantly cheaper?

It doesn’t matter. That wasn’t a bash against Graviton 2, I am just really looking toward the next generation, because I think it will be so much better, but sadly no announcements yet.

Since graviton is typically a reinvent announcement, I would guess you should wait a week.

"AWS Announcing AWS Fargate for Amazon AWS ECS Powered by AWS Graviton2 AWS Processors"

Fixed, not enough AWS in the title :)

I am looking for application benchmarks and details about the micro architecture.

Any suggestions where i should look?

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