NetEase is a leading internet technology company based in China that’s dedicated to providing premium online services centered on content, community, communication and commerce. We develop and operate some of the most popular PC-client and mobile games in China, and we have recently expanded our gaming platform into international markets. We recently switched to Amazon EC2 A1 instances with the goal of lowering our operational costs. We use Amazon EC2 A1 instances to run the audio voice service, which powers real-time player chat, and the network forwarding service, which is built to accelerate gaming traffic. “The audio voice and network forwarding services are network I/O bound and the A1 instances provide up to 10Gbps of network bandwidth. These services are written in Python which makes them platform independent and enabled a quick and easy transition to Amazon EC2 A1 instances”, says Bruce Sun, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect at NetEase Games. Bruce attributes a 40% Amazon EC2 cloud infrastructure cost saving for these services after adopting Amazon EC2 A1 instances.

"VMware is exploring running our leading virtualization platform in different Arm environments, at the Edge, on the SmartNIC, and in the Cloud. Amazon's EC2 A1 instance helps accelerate our Arm development process by providing a readily available and scalable compute instance to prototype, validate and test new use cases. The A1 metal instance also enables us to evaluate new deployment scenarios and integration with our stack which we believe will deliver meaningful innovation to our customers."

- Will Pien Product Management ESXi

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.

Geodata processes logs of server activity for both near-real-time and long-term purposes. The processing is performed using custom software written in Python with various open-source libraries, and runs on EC2 along with other AWS technologies such as Lambda and CloudWatch Logs. Geodata found the migration of the EC2 components to EC2 A1 instances to be effortless, and the A1 instances to be optimal.

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Reamp, a provider of consulting and media solutions, collects and processes data through multiple 3rd 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. Learn more »

Docker is the leader in the containerization market, combining an enterprise-grade container platform with world-class services. The pervasiveness of Arm-powered technologies across the global internet infrastructure market is unmatched, and now nearly two million Docker developers can build and scale applications for the cloud and connected devices quickly and securely. Docker Enterprise Engine for Amazon EC2 A1 instances backed by commercial support from Docker enables the Arm ecosystem with a modern, enterprise grade container platform for high-velocity innovation.

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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