Top Use Cases That Can Benefit from AWS Graviton Performance Gains
The ARM-based AWS Graviton processors can accelerate a wide range of scale-out workloads that stand to benefit from optimized price/performance.
Based on real-world client deployments, here are the top 5 use case patterns that see significant gains from switching to Graviton:
- Web Serving and Reverse Proxy Fleets
Graviton instances can handle up to 30% more concurrent user requests before performance degradation thanks to consistent low latency. This allows right-sizing server capacity at lower costs.
- Microservices and Container Orchestration
Ability to spin up more containers per host lets development teams shift left on performance testing without inflating infrastructure budgets.
- Video Encoding and Graphics Render Farms
Specialist workloads with floating point and matrix math dependencies experience major speedups from Graviton-backed fleets.
- In-Memory Caching Tiers
Latency-sensitive caching layers like Redis and Memcached can scale to handle heavier throughput when running on Graviton instances.
- Data Ingestion Pipelines
The combination of sustained compute plus onboard data compression acceleration makes Graviton ideal for ingesting high velocity streams from IoT devices.
In addition, any scale-out application migrated from x86 to Graviton benefits from built-in architectural security advantages including run time memory protections.
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