EC2 推出 ARM 架構的機器...

看到 AWS 推出使用 ARM 架構的 EC2 instance 了:「New – EC2 Instances (A1) Powered by Arm-Based AWS Graviton Processors」。

在 Quick Start 頁面有 Ubuntu 18.04 (ARM) 可以選,開起來後操作跟標準的 Ubuntu 差不多... 連進去後 uname -a 可以看到是 aarch64:

ubuntu@ip-172-30-2-207:~$ uname -a
Linux ip-172-30-2-207 4.15.0-1028-aws #29+nutmeg8-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 20 02:59:41 UTC 2018 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

然後來看硬體規格,從最大台的 a1.4xlarge 來看是 16 vCPU + 32 GB RAM,定價是 $0.408/hr (這邊都拿 us-east-1 比較)。

對照 General Purpose 的 m5.4xlarge 是 16 vCPU + 60 GB RAM,定價是 $0.768/hr。如果看記憶體比較接近的 m5.2xlarge 則是 8 vCPU + 31 GB RAM,定價是 $0.384/hr。

對照 Compute Optimized 的 c5.4xlarge 是 16 vCPU + 68 GB RAM,定價是 $0.68/hr。

實際跑一些測試,包括 md5、sha256 與 aes (最後 aes 這個通常都有硬體加速),都用 -mutli 16 跑。

ARM 的 a1.4xlarge

type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes  16384 bytes
md5            1064103.21k  2484789.44k  4436178.60k  5521370.45k  5943380.65k  5963896.15k
sha256         2059690.93k  5652827.82k 11792656.30k 16108863.15k 18086602.36k 18250851.29k
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes  16384 bytes
aes-128 cbc    1593981.48k  1723960.38k  1752940.20k  1767321.94k  1770212.01k  1768281.43k
aes-192 cbc    1400010.40k  1496414.83k  1516962.99k  1527643.82k  1529834.15k  1527563.26k
aes-256 cbc    1222067.79k  1296972.50k  1313348.18k  1321350.83k  1322947.93k  1321850.20k
blowfish cbc   1384982.01k  1500548.63k  1529793.02k  1540091.22k  1540937.05k  1540767.74k

Intelm5.4xlarge

type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes  16384 bytes
md5            1370869.17k  3276978.66k  5929591.13k  7441276.93k  8026330.45k  8071796.05k
sha256          592719.47k  1325135.04k  2506009.09k  3184234.50k  3455729.66k  3480365.74k
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes  16384 bytes
aes-128 cbc    1060996.96k  1121951.87k  1135376.21k  1141487.96k  1143270.06k  1143499.43k
aes-192 cbc     890438.97k   934047.98k   943446.44k   947576.49k   948857.51k   949026.82k
aes-256 cbc     768686.53k   800152.85k   806883.93k   809804.12k   810784.09k   810937.00k
blowfish cbc   1735490.97k  1884059.78k  1923876.10k  1932711.94k  1934477.99k  1928680.79k

Intel 的 c5.4xlarge

type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes  16384 bytes
md5            1501870.92k  3593434.20k  6503591.25k  8162811.90k  8804605.95k  8855147.86k
sha256          650179.22k  1453635.18k  2749318.83k  3492912.13k  3791164.76k  3818105.51k
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes  16384 bytes
aes-128 cbc    1163898.98k  1230539.07k  1244414.63k  1252080.98k  1254110.55k  1254206.12k
aes-192 cbc     976610.23k  1024570.03k  1034886.66k  1039442.26k  1040872.79k  1041143.13k
aes-256 cbc     843184.42k   877695.30k   885125.46k   888408.06k   889503.74k   889766.83k
blowfish cbc   1877162.34k  2056925.74k  2107008.26k  2119893.67k  2121979.22k  2115720.53k

這些數字頗有趣的... 看起來 ARM 上面應該有對某些演算法加速,使得常見的情境會快很多。不過如果是其他應用的話看起來就會比較辛苦了... 目前就價錢來看未必有絕對的優勢,還是得看應用來決定。

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