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by silksowed 1256 days ago
does anyone know of anyone using graviton for compute instances? would like to gauge how the experience has been
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We've been using Graviton (and now 2 and 3) for our node and rails services for over a year now.

Early on there was a rush to get everything supported (aarch64 compiled packages mostly), but now everything works just fine.

We just swapped some c6i.2xlarge servers for c7g.xlarge (graviton 3, half the size of the intel servers) and utilization for our workload (sidekiq jobs, in this case) bumped up maybe 20-30%. The performance is quite good.

I've switched several organizations to AWS Graviton instances. You basically get 30% more of everything for 20% less cost.

No issues: if your software supports it, do it.

I've been running JVM, nginx, and Aurora workloads on Graviton for awhile. The cost savings were too much to pass up, so I moved us over rather quickly where I could.
Here is the benchmark comparing all generation of Graviton servers in AWS with Intel and AMD servers: https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/hardware/