INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Waiting for someone else to design an Arm server processor that can work at scale on the cloud just wasn't working for Amazon Web Services
(AWS) which is why the company decided to design its own.At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Vice President of Infrastructure Peter
DeSantis introduced the AWS Gravitron Processor to give customers a third option in addition to instances that use processors from Intel and
that require a lot of servers to solve problems.The new instances will be called EC2 A1 and they will be able to run applications written
for Amazon Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu
As of now, EC2 A1 is generally available in US East (Northern Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and Europe (Ireland).Competition
in the server marketIntel currently controls the market for server processors both in the cloud and in the on-premise server market
AMD has tried to challenge the company's dominance for years but has been unsuccessful although its new Epyc processors have been praised by
people purchasing servers and by cloud companies like AWS.AWS's Gravitron Processor builds on the company's acquisition of Annapurna Labs
back in 2015.Vice President of Compute Services at AWS, Matt Garman provided more details on its Gravitron Processors in a statement,
containerized microservices
A1 instances are powered by our new custom-designed AWS Graviton processors with the Arm instruction set that leverages our expertise in
100 Gbps networking performance to speed distributed machine learning training and high performance computing
