The specific designation of Intel with the ‘i’ suffix is interesting. I’m surprised how fast this went from “everything is Intel” to “only take intel if you need something like SAP”.
I remember the first AMD instances a few years back and the 10% price/performance was nice, but at the same time didn’t feel like it would convince enterprise users to switch. Now with Graviton2&3, they’re apparently at 30-40% advantage and any big user would be crazy not to explore moving workloads over.
I expect the Intel-AWS negotiations today are _very_ different vs 5 years ago. This new naming is just one of many signals of a further downhill trend to Intel, and it’s likely to gain momentum in the next few years as the experience and ecosystem around ARM grows.
I remember the first AMD instances a few years back and the 10% price/performance was nice, but at the same time didn’t feel like it would convince enterprise users to switch. Now with Graviton2&3, they’re apparently at 30-40% advantage and any big user would be crazy not to explore moving workloads over.
I expect the Intel-AWS negotiations today are _very_ different vs 5 years ago. This new naming is just one of many signals of a further downhill trend to Intel, and it’s likely to gain momentum in the next few years as the experience and ecosystem around ARM grows.