This white paper examines the benefits of AMD-powered instances in providing AWS customers with a variety of choices to right-size workloads whilst simultaneously lowering compute and memory costs.

It also provides workload comparisons between Intel and AMD-powered processes, as well as examples of moving to AMD EPYC™ variants for:

  • Simple EC2 instance update using
    - AWS Console
    - AWS CLI
  • EC2 Instance Application - HashiCorp Vault deployed using
    - Terraform
    - CloudFormation
  • Microservice Demo Application - Sock Shop deployed using
    - Terraform
    - CloudFormation

As both Intel and AMD EPYC™ processors use the same x86 architecture, in most situations, applications running on existing EC2 instances can transition from one to the other seamlessly.

Explore the ease of moving to AMD-powered instances