AWS Graviton Processor

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is the creator of Fortnite, Unreal, Gears of War, Shadow Complex, and the Infinity Blade series of games. Epic’s Unreal Engine technology brings high-fidelity, interactive experiences to PC, console, mobile, AR, VR, and the Web.

“As we look to the future and building increasingly immersive and compelling experiences for players, we are excited to use AWS Graviton3-based EC2 C7g instances. Our testing has shown they are suitable for even the most demanding latency sensitive workloads while providing significant price performance benefits and expanding what is possible within Fortnite and any Unreal Engine created experience.” 

Mark Imbriaco, Senior Director of Engineering at Epic Games

"We began using AWS Graviton2-based instances during our summer of major sports broadcasts including the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Graviton2 was used in our caching services for our front end Subscriber Management and the Media Asset Management platforms to reach 175M viewers with 7x better performance compared to the x86-based instances we were using previously. As Graviton2 has up to 40% better price performance, Discovery are investigating how to scale further adoption across other use cases."

Damien Frost, SVP, Global Infrastructure Services, Discovery

DIRECTV has been at the forefront of entertainment for nearly three decades. DIRECTV STREAM allows DIRECTV to focus on its customers, people, and vendors as it continues to deliver innovative entertainment experiences where, when and how people want it.

“We moved our Kubernetes nodes running DIRECTV STREAM microservices to Graviton2-based instances. These microservices are based on Golang and comprise a variety of domains such as Metadata Discovery, DVR Playlist, and Channel Authorization that serve as the core backend systems for DIRECTV STREAM and DIRECTV Everywhere. With the superior performance and lower per-instance cost of Graviton2-based instances compared to x86-based instances, we are estimating 25% lower operating costs for these microservices. It took us about 4 weeks to add support for Graviton2 to our lab and production Kubernetes environments, build pipelines, and development kits. Adoption was a seamless experience and we are in the process of migrating our fleet of over 700 microservices to Graviton2-based instances.”

Jonathan Tronson, AVP Software Engineering, DIRECTV STREAM

As the largest continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform, CircleCI is the central hub where developers seamlessly take ideas to execution, at scale. CircleCI is one of the few services to offer fully cloud-based Arm compute for CI/CD, allowing customers to build and test their applications for Arm without managing their own machines.

"The AWS Graviton2 instances make Arm-based CI/CD possible for the first time at scale. We needed a partner who could provide Arm-based compute with the capacity and reliability we require. With CircleCI’s Arm build fleet running on Graviton2, developers can build, test and deploy Arm-based applications in a truly serverless experience, without managing their own machines. By partnering with AWS, we’re able to bring that scale to the Arm developer community at a level not previously possible."

Tom Trahan, VP Business Development, CircleCI

CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection built from the ground up to stop breaches. CrowdStrike Falcon delivers full spectrum runtime protection and visibility for hosts and hosted containers leveraging a cloud-native platform and a single lightweight sensor, without requiring any additional deployments or integrations. AWS Graviton2 Arm64-based instances offer compelling performance and cost benefits which will help drive adoption across a much wider variety of workloads. Under the shared responsibility model, AWS customers require consistent and seamless protection across their Amazon EC2 compute fleet, regardless of the underlying processor architectures. That is why CrowdStrike is delighted to extend CrowdStrike Falcon protection and visibility for all Graviton-based EC2 instances.

Datadog is the monitoring and analytics platform for developers, operations, and business users in the cloud age. "We're excited the Graviton2 instances are now generally available. We've seen our own developer productivity increase as these instances have boosted the performance of key continuous integration pipelines by 50%," said Jimmy Caputo, Product Manager at Datadog. "With the Datadog Agent for Graviton / Arm, all AWS customers can use Datadog to monitor the Graviton2 instance performance alongside the rest of their infrastructure.“

"Genymotion offers Android™ In-the-Cloud (AIC) solutions, with in-browser streaming and ADB access. Genymotion has been deployed on AWS Graviton2 Arm64-based instances, as our clients are seeing as much as three to five times higher density and higher streaming quality on this generation of Arm-based servers, with a lower price. This also enables them to have a native experience of Android without the need to install binary translation tools to run applications. The Genymotion team is very excited to finally see server-based Arm instances in the cloud as it will open new use cases and opportunities" 

Jean-Charles Leneveu, Product Manager, Genymotion

KeyDB is a high performance database compatible with the Redis™ API and focused on multithreading, memory efficiency and high throughput. KeyDB is excited to offer support for AWS Graviton2 instances and encourage users to see what a KeyDB + Graviton2 setup can offer. KeyDB testing has shown performance gains as high as 65% using AWS Graviton2-powered Amazon M6g instances compared to the latest generation x86-based M5 instances. KeyDB is proud to support the latest technology and provide the most powerful solutions available to its users.