Where are Google and Azure with ARM instances? It's been nothing but crickets for years now... this is starting to get silly that their customers can't at least start getting workloads on a different architecture, nevermind get better performance per dollar, etc. too. The silence is deafening.
Remember Amazon brought Annapurna Labs in 2015. And only released their first Graviton instances in 2018. The lead time for a Server CPU product is at least a year even when you have blueprints. That is ignoring fab capacity booking and many other things like testing. And without scale ( AWS is bigger than GCP and Azure combined ) it is hard to gain competitive advantage ( which often delays management decision making ).
I think you should see Azure and GCP ARM offering in late 2022. Marvel's exit statement on ARM server SoC pretty much all but confirmed Google and Microsoft are working on their own ARM offering.
In terms of physical servers. I believe Chinese cloud providers, and their monster CNDs (China has terribly slow Internet, and superlocal CDNs are the only way out there) overtook AWS quite a few years ago.
There is also the common practice of not including discounts in revenue. There is a reason companies talk about revenue instead of net sales or net income.
I've never seen AWS give discounts comparable to what Azure provided. Especially to larger companies they want the brand recognition from.
Microsoft’s “cloud business” is not at all comparable to AWS or GCP. It includes all manner of other product that can’t be reasonably classified as cloud compute. AWS remains significantly larger than either azure or GCP when measured by either revenue or raw compute.
"The second phase will see these entities develop custom integrated chips and System on a Chip (SoC) with "lower power consumption, improved performance, reduced physical size, and improved reliability for application in DoD systems."
Doesn’t IBM also offer a bunch of weird architectures that can’t be found anywhere else? One day I was looking up some old PowerPC and s390 architectures that are supported by a lot of docker images, trying to figure out why anyone would want them, and it appears the answer is that they’re used in IBM mainframes.
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Where are Google and Azure with ARM instances? It's been nothing but crickets for years now... this is starting to get silly that their customers can't at least start getting workloads on a different architecture, nevermind get better performance per dollar, etc. too. The silence is deafening.
Remember Amazon brought Annapurna Labs in 2015. And only released their first Graviton instances in 2018. The lead time for a Server CPU product is at least a year even when you have blueprints. That is ignoring fab capacity booking and many other things like testing. And without scale ( AWS is bigger than GCP and Azure combined ) it is hard to gain competitive advantage ( which often delays management decision making ).
I think you should see Azure and GCP ARM offering in late 2022. Marvel's exit statement on ARM server SoC pretty much all but confirmed Google and Microsoft are working on their own ARM offering.
And if I recall correctly, AWS needed to develop Nitro before offering Graviton.
Azure cloud is bigger than AWS
https://cloudwars.co/microsoft/microsoft-q2-cloud-revenue-st...
In terms of physical servers. I believe Chinese cloud providers, and their monster CNDs (China has terribly slow Internet, and superlocal CDNs are the only way out there) overtook AWS quite a few years ago.
Revenue != compute resources. That revenue includes Office Online subscriptions AFAIK as a way to game the marketing.
There is also the common practice of not including discounts in revenue. There is a reason companies talk about revenue instead of net sales or net income.
I've never seen AWS give discounts comparable to what Azure provided. Especially to larger companies they want the brand recognition from.
Microsoft’s “cloud business” is not at all comparable to AWS or GCP. It includes all manner of other product that can’t be reasonably classified as cloud compute. AWS remains significantly larger than either azure or GCP when measured by either revenue or raw compute.
I think they are bound by long term supply agreements with Intel. They will just bargain for better prices with Intel.
Not an easy task it will be, given that Intel is capacity jammed.
https://interestingengineering.com/microsoft-will-build-adva...
"The second phase will see these entities develop custom integrated chips and System on a Chip (SoC) with "lower power consumption, improved performance, reduced physical size, and improved reliability for application in DoD systems."
maybe its coming?
Funnily, IBM offers ARM instances. Even on free tier.
Doesn’t IBM also offer a bunch of weird architectures that can’t be found anywhere else? One day I was looking up some old PowerPC and s390 architectures that are supported by a lot of docker images, trying to figure out why anyone would want them, and it appears the answer is that they’re used in IBM mainframes.
IBM had computer architectures before there were computer architectures, so it's not exactly a fair comparison :-p
Same for Oracle.
I am sorry, I was wrong. I actually meant Oracle. I don't see any ARM options in IBM cloud.