Amazon at the AWS Summit have announced cheaper instances that are powered by AMD’s EPYC 7000 series CPUs. Noting that theu are 10% cheaper than the Intel based instances as a result of the lower cost of AMD parts.
Interesting to see them separate them out and not over all lower the price or scrape the profits with cheaper hardware. I wonder if it isn’t poking Intel and making it know more widely that more reasonable option are available now.
At the show the cloudy side of Amazon announced the availability of block storage-infused AMD-based M5ad and R5ad instances for EC2, which cost 10 per cent less than Intel-based M5 and R5 instances. Based on EPYC 7000 chips and tuned for memory-intensive workloads
