AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors (opens in new tab)

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26 pointsjhealy4y ago12 comments

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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.

thecompilr4y ago

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

gnulinux4y ago

Why does it matter if it's significantly cheaper?

thecompilr4y ago

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.

cowsandmilk4y ago

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

imwillofficial4y ago

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

thecompilr4y ago

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 Not sure why saying a two year old CPU is outdated is a controversial take.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...

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rkwasny4y ago

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

Fixed, not enough AWS in the title :)

zibzab4y ago

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

Any suggestions where i should look?

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john5674y ago

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.

thecompilr4y ago

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

gnulinux4y ago

Why does it matter if it's significantly cheaper?

thecompilr4y ago

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.

cowsandmilk4y ago

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

imwillofficial4y ago

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

thecompilr4y ago

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...

3 more replies

rkwasny4y ago

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

Fixed, not enough AWS in the title :)

zibzab4y ago

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

Any suggestions where i should look?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse