Amazon EC2 A1 instances are the first EC2 instances powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton processors. They deliver significant cost savings for scale-out and Arm-based applications, such as web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets, and distributed data stores that are supported by the extensive Arm ecosystem. In this chalk talk, learn about EC2 A1 instances, understand the use cases, and watch demonstrations of how easy it can be to migrate and run your workloads on EC2 A1. Discussion and questions are encouraged.

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Introduction to EC2 A1 instances, powered by the AWS
Graviton Processor
Sudhir Raman
Senior Product Manager
Amazon Web Services
C M P 2 0 7
Andy Hopper
Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services

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Agenda
Amazon EC2 A1 Instance overview
Workload targets
Customer success stories
Arm/A1 software ecosystem
Examples: Getting your application up and running on A1/Arm

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Broadest and deepest platform choice
Categories Capabilities Options
+ + =
190+instance types

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Choice of processors and architectures
Intel Xeon Scalable (Skylake)
Processor
Right compute for each application and workload
Choice of GPUs and FPGAs for compute acceleration
AWS Graviton Processor 64-
bit Arm
AMD EPYC Processor

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AWS Graviton Processor
Custom AWS silicon with 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores
Rapidly innovate, build, and iterate on behalf
of customers
Targeted workload optimizations

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First instance powered by AWS Graviton Processor
Run scale-out and Arm-based applications in the cloud
Up to 45% cost savings
AWS Graviton Processor
64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and custom
AWS silicon
Amazon EC2 A1
Lower cost
Maximize resource efficiency
with AWS Nitro SystemFlexibility and choice for
your workloads

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Targeted applications for Amazon EC2 A1
Web tier Containerized microservices
Caching fleets IoT, Gaming, Arm workloads

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Amazon EC2 A1: Sizes and specifications
Instance
CPU
Arch
vCPUs
Memory
(GB)
Network
bandwidth
(Gbps)
Amazon EBS-
optimized
Amazon EBS
bandwidth
(Mbps)
EBS-optimized
burst bandwidth
(Mbps)
a1.medium arm64 1 2 Up to 10 Yes 300 3500
a1.large arm64 2 4 Up to 10 Yes 525 3500
a1.xlarge arm64 4 8 Up to 10 Yes 800 3500
a1.2xlarge arm64 8 16 Up to 10 Yes 1750 3500
a1.4xlarge arm64 16 32 Up to 10 Yes 3500 3500
US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) Regions
More regions coming soon!

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Customer success stories
SmugMug is a service that allows users to upload,
store, and share photos and videos. They achieved a
40% cost savings by migrating their photo-serving tier
to EC2 A1 instances. SmugMug was able to move their
software stack (PHP, Nginx, HAProxy) to A1 instances
with minimal effort. And getting everything up and
running on A1 instances was like any other EC2
instance for SmugMug.
We provide a prepaid cell phone billing service to several mobile
operators in Latin America. Once a customer runs out of cell phone
credit, their internet traffic is redirected and filtered to ensure
reliable access to purchase additional credit. We explored multiple
solutions before settling on Amazon EC2 A1 instances running Nginx,
.NET core, and Docker, which is currently saving us approximately
$6K per month.

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Customer success stories
Reamp, a provider of consulting and media solutions,
collects and processes data through multiple third-party
APIs to deliver meaningful marketing insights for their
customers. They seamlessly transitioned their in-house
Java application using the same Ubuntu + OpenJDK
software environment and found the A1 instances to
deliver optimal cost and performance for their data
processing workloads. Based on this positive experience
with A1 instances they are currently exploring additional
workloads for migration.
When we introduced k3s, a lightweight Kubernetes
distribution built for the edge, we needed to run our CI
infrastructure on Arm servers. Amazon EC2 A1
instances made a huge difference in our development
and test process, and ensured we could efficiently
develop, build, and release k3s entirely on Arm
without the need for cross-compiling and emulation.

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Arm software ecosystem for A1 instances
OSVs and ISVs
Amazon Linux 2
Ubuntu 16.04 and newer
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7.6, 8.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
+ Fedora, Debian 9.8, NGINX Plus
Containers
Most Docker official images support
Arm64
Amazon
ECS
Available now!
Amazon
EKS
Available now!
Public Preview
Tools
+ Amazon Corretto (OpenJDK)

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DockerCon 2019
‟Docker and Arm Partner to Deliver Frictionless Cloud-
Native Software Development and Delivery Model for
Cloud, Edge, and IoT”
Source: https://www.docker.com/docker-news-and-press/docker-arm-partner-frictionless-cloud-native-software-model-cloud-edge-iot

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Multi-arch Docker Desktop buildx demo

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Multi-arch Docker Desktop buildx demo

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Getting started on A1 instances
• Workload profile examples: scale-out architectures, I/O bound, utilize open-source
software
• Examples: Perl, Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, NodeJS, Apache HTTP server, containers
• Use AMIs and container images built for “arm64” arch (x86 AMIs are not
compatible with A1 instances)

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ASP.NET core sample web application
• .NET Core app
• Runs on Linux
• Can be cross-
compiled to Arm64

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AWS Application
Load Balancer
Users
Amazon VPC
AWS CloudFormation
AWS CodeBuild
AWS CodeCommit
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS CodePipeline
Amazon EC2 Auto
Scaling group (x86)
Amazon RDS
(SQL server)
AWS CodeDeploy
Deployment Group: x64

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Users
Amazon
VPC
AWS Application
Load Balancer
AWS CloudFormation
Amazon RDS
(SQL server)
CodeBuild
CodeCommit
CodeDeploy
CodePipelinex64
Arm64

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Users
Amazon
VPC
Amazon EC2 Auto
Scaling Group
(Arm)
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Application
Load Balancer Amazon RDS
(SQL server) CodeBuild
CodeCommit
CodeDeploy
CodePipeline

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In summary . . .
• Amazon EC2 A1 instances are powered by the new AWS Graviton Processor
• The AWS Graviton Processor features 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and custom AWS
silicon
• Amazon EC2 A1 instances deliver up to 45% lower cost for scale-out and Arm-based
workloads
• Broad SW ecosystem support for Arm exists with Linux and container support

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• AWS Graviton EC2 instances: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/a1
• Additional questions? Reach us at:
AWS Graviton EC2 instances: ec2-arm-dev-feedback@amazon.com
Learn more

24. Thank you!
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Sudhir Raman
Andy Hopper
ec2-arm-dev-feedback@amazon.com