Enterprises rely on proven x86 platforms for seamless operations. Before adding Arm® to your hybrid cloud, consider the broader impact.
Enterprises choose hybrid clouds to combine private, on-premises infrastructure with one or more public cloud instances. With x86 infrastructure across your hybrid cloud, workloads can move freely, scale up, and scale out with consistent performance, minimal development work, and low administrative overhead. Arm is incompatible with x86. Adding Arm to your cloud means refactoring, recompiling, and managing multiple code bases in exchange for uncertain gains.
With AMD EPYC processors you can get better performance per dollar in the cloud and more performance per watt on premises, plus you don’t have to deal with compatibility issues.
4th Generation AMD EPYC 9004-based instances on AWS (R7a) outpace AWS Graviton4 instances (R8g), delivering more work for less money.1
Performance per Dollar1 (higher is better)
5th Generation AMD EPYC 9965 CPUs deliver up to 1.3X higher performance per watt than AmpereOne.2
Performance per Watt2 (higher is better)
Most enterprise software on-premises and in the cloud runs natively on x86 platforms from AMD or Intel. All x86 chips work together seamlessly for maximum flexibility and true workload portability across environments.
Arm processors use instruction sets that are incompatible with the millions of lines of software written for the x86 architecture. The result: siloed clouds that increase operational complexity and reduce compatibility, portability, and flexibility.
With x86, every instance is compatible from on-premises to every x86 cloud provider, enabling truly seamless hybrid and multi-cloud x86 architectures. This type of universal compatibility doesn’t exist across Arm instances.
AWS Graviton, Azure Cobalt, and Google Axion each use a custom version of the Arm architecture. In many cases, workloads can’t travel freely between them, which is how Arm can turn your seamless multi-cloud into a costly, multi-code-base to-do list.
It’s What Makes the Cloud, the Cloud
The cloud—including hybrid cloud and multi-cloud—is core to modern IT. All these clouds can work seamlessly thanks to the millions of x86 CPUs and the vast array of software available. Choose AMD EPYC processor-based x86 to get leadership performance, energy efficiency, and affordability without the challenges of incompatible Arm instances.
AMD EPYC CPUs provide consistency that Arm simply can’t. When you run all your instances on AMD EPYC CPUs, you don’t have to retrain your people, and you don’t have to refactor, recompile, or manage multiple code bases. In a world of difficult choices, choosing AMD EPYC can be an easy one.
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