New OCI Ampere A2 Compute instances powered by
AmpereOne® deliver best in class
price-per-performance.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. ,
Aug. 5,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ampere and Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure (OCI) announced today the launch of
second-generation Ampere-based compute instances, OCI Ampere A2
Compute, based on the AmpereOne® family of
processors. The new offering builds upon the success of OCI Ampere
A1 Compute instances, which have been adopted by OCI customers and
deployed across over 100 OCI services, including Oracle Database
services like HeatWave, MySQL, as well as Oracle Cloud
Applications.
OCI Ampere A2 Compute instances provide higher core count
virtual machines and high-density containers within a single
server, delivering more performance, scalability, and
cost-efficiency for cloud native workloads. In addition, the OCI
Ampere A2 Compute series further extends OCI's lead in both
Arm-based cloud computing and price-for-performance.
"OCI and Ampere began our collaboration with the ground-breaking
A1 shapes. We've demonstrated the versatility of these shapes on a
wide range of workloads from general purpose applications and OCI
services to the most recently announced and highly demanding use
case: Llama3 generative AI services," said Jeff Wittich, Chief Product Officer at Ampere.
"Building on this momentum, the new OCI Ampere A2 Compute shapes
using our AmpereOne® processors are set to create a
new baseline in price-performance for the cloud industry across an
ever-expanding variety of cloud native workloads and instance
types."
Key features, pricing and performance metrics for the OCI Ampere
A2 Compute instances include:
- Up to 78 OCPUs (1 OCPU = 2 AmpereOne® cores, 156
cores total)
- Up to 946 GB of DDR5 memory with 25% more bandwidth compared to
A1
- Flexible VM sizes, with up to 946 GB of memory, and block
storage boot volumes up to 32TB
- Networking bandwidth of up to 78 Gbps Ethernet and up to 24
VNICs
- Testing shows that our customers may see up to 2X better price
performance vs comparable x86-based shapes
- Leadership Arm-based cloud compute pricing at $0.014/OCPU/hour, and $0.002/GB/hour
- Oracle's Flex Shapes allow customers to tune the core count of
their shape based on their actual workloads for even more
savings
Like OCI Ampere A1 instances, OCI
Ampere A2 Compute instances show strong performance for multiple AI
functions, including generative AI. This performance is made
possible through joint development efforts between Ampere Computing
and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) that have recently delivered
up to 152% performance gain over the previous
upstream llama.cpp open-source implementation.
Beyond AI, OCI Ampere A1 and A2 Compute instances are also
well-suited for other cloud native workloads, such as analytics and
databases, media services, video streaming, and web services. They
offer the linear scalability, low latency, density and predictable
performance these workloads need, bringing more performance and
higher cost savings. For example, when deploying a typical web
service on OCI Ampere A2 Compute, using very popular applications
such as MySQL, NGINX, Cassandra, and Redis, the savings can be very
compelling. An enterprise spending $50M annually across a weighted blend of these
popular web service components could save up to $21.4M in cloud infrastructure costs compared
with OCI E5 x86 based shapes. The result can save up to 43% less in
infrastructure costs, 30% reduction in power consumption, and 33%
less carbon emissions.
OCI Ampere A1 and A2 Compute shapes represent a significant
advancement in cloud computing by lowering general purpose cloud
computing costs, addressing AI computing efficiency, providing a
more predictable and linearly scalable compute resource, and
helping companies achieve ESG goals faster. Visit the OCI Ampere
Compute website to get started.
About Ampere
Ampere is a modern semiconductor company
designing the future of cloud computing with the world's first
Cloud Native Processors. Built for the sustainable Cloud with the
highest performance and best performance per watt, Ampere
processors accelerate the delivery of all cloud computing
applications. Ampere Cloud Native Processors provide
industry-leading cloud performance, power efficiency and
scalability. For more information visit Ampere Computing.
Media Contact
Alexa Korkos
Ampere Computing
press@amperecomputing.com
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