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Category: Graviton

Powering Amazon RDS with AWS Graviton3: Benchmarks

In April 2023, AWS announced the ability to power Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances with the AWS Graviton3 processor. AWS Graviton3 was announced in May 2022 and is built using a custom-designed ARM architecture using ARM Neoverse cores, optimized for delivering high performance and energy efficiency. AWS Graviton3 provides up to 25% better […]

Choose AWS Graviton and cloud storage for your Ethereum nodes infrastructure on AWS

The first question that comes up for everyone who wants to manage their own Ethereum nodes on AWS is how to select the right compute and storage. To answer this question, we ran a series of tests and observed how popular Ethereum Execution Layer (EL) clients go-ethereum with LevelDB (Geth) and Erigon work on Amazon […]

Achieve better performance on Amazon DocumentDB with AWS Graviton2 instances

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. We recently announced support for AWS Graviton2 instances for Amazon DocumentDB. AWS Graviton2 processors are custom built by AWS using 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and feature always-on, fully encrypted DDR4 memory and 50% faster per-core […]