AWS and AMD

ACCIONA offers sustainable solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the planet, such as global warming, energy needs, and water shortages. We use Amazon EC2 M7a instances for computational heavy simulations of electricity grids and these instances allow us to simulate up to 64 different variables in a single simulation, vs. 16-30 variables before. Additionally, when we compared M7a instances to other instances, we saw a reduction in simulation time from 60-80 minutes to 18-22 minutes, which is on average, a 59% improvement in multi-threading performance. And with M7a instances, we were able to see 64 threads progressing at the same speed, which we had not experienced before. We are excited for M7a instances to help accelerate our innovation.

Dropbox is a leader in personal and enterprise online storage and is in a unique position to utilize AMD technology on-premise and in the cloud. We’re able to deliver on our promise to help customers work smarter, in part, through the technology partnerships we’ve established. AMD’s EPYC processors deliver the performance we need on our on-prem workloads, while Amazon EC2 instances powered by AMD processors offer us significant savings.

Capital One Financial Corporation, a leading information-based technology company and digital banking innovator, has taken a cloud-first approach to software development that provides highly-personalized customer experiences in the areas of credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products. Capital One has been able to leverage the utilization and cost benefits of AWS using EC2 instances powered by AMD EPYC processors. Capital One is always looking for ways to optimize our cloud utilization, taking advantage of Amazon EC2 R5a, M5a, T3a and C5a instances, which are all based on AMD’s EPYC processors.

Sprinklr is a provider of enterprise software for customer experience management. More than 1,200 brands in 150 countries create happier customers with Sprinklr, including L’Oreal and McDonald’s. We are always looking for ways to improve our cloud utilization and after using AWS’s EC2 M5a, R5a and C5a, which are all based on AMD’s EPYC processors, we’ve secured substantial savings on our cloud costs.

Wego is the leading online travel marketplace in Asia Pacific and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and it harnesses powerful yet simple technology that automates the process of searching and comparing results from hundreds of airline, hotel and online travel agency websites. We operate 60 country sites in over 22 languages and 58 currencies supporting millions of travelers every month. We had been using Amazon EC2 M5a instances since last year for our microservices, and soon after the EC2 C5a instances were launched, we migrated our Java-based metasearch services to these instances. With no code changes necessary, the transition was seamlessly completed in just a few days and it allowed us to achieve more than 30% cost savings.

Thatgamecompany studio (best known for beautifully designed games such as Flow, Flower and Journey), has recently seen the major benefits of using C5a to support our games. Sky: Children of the Light, which Apple named 2019’s iPhone Game of the Year, leans into C5a to support Sky’s backend services including Account Services, Load Balancing, Matchmaking, and more. Making the migration to C5a was straight-forward and easy, and we immediately saw the cost and performance benefits of doing so. As a longtime fan of AMD, I was excited to see their new 2nd Gen EPYC processors offered in the C5 family on AWS.

Elementum is the company behind the first cloud-native supply chain orchestration platform. In an age where instant gratification is the new norm and customer expectations are continuing to grow exponentially, successful operations need to adapt faster than ever to unplanned exceptions. Amazon Web Services provide our SRE team with the breadth and depth of services needed to scale our business while managing costs. For example, we recently moved our DC/OS and CoreOS based micro-services platform from 3rd generation EC2 instances to current generation AMD EPYC based instances. The transition was seamless, we're able to give our Java developers lots of memory with the same number of vCPU's which delivers snappy performance, and we achieved the 20-25% cost savings we estimated at the start of this project.

Asurion helps people protect, connect and enjoy the latest tech – to make life a little easier. We’ve built a global scale presence and are still growing. Every day our 19,000 experts help more than 300 million people around the world solve the most common and uncommon tech issues. Amazon Web Services provides a broad and deep portfolio of cloud services giving us the agility to scale our business without compromising our dedication to service, and commitment to exceptional customer experience. We recently migrated our memory intensive customer claim and fraud analysis services from a mixture of Amazon EC2 M4 and M5 instances and consolidated them on Amazon EC2 M5a instances featuring AMD EPYC processors. The M5a instances provide a seamless migration path, offering the same instance sizes as M5 and application compatibility while delivering cost savings and exceeding our performance expectations.

Druva delivers data protection and management for the cloud era. We operate in 14 global AWS regions, serving 4,000+ customers and protect a global footprint of 150+ PB of data stored completely within AWS. What began as a thought experiment for our global footprint of compute resources with AMD-powered instances transformed into a broad initiative resulting in powerful outcomes. In less than two weeks we were able to successfully transfer our global capacity from legacy instances to AMD-powered ones, without any additional effort required from our engineering teams. We unilaterally drove this change between the Operations and Performance teams, and in the process achieved a remarkable saving of 10-15 percent and in some cases as much as 50 percent.

Auvik's cloud-based network management software keeps IT networks around the world running optimally. We partnered with AWS to allow us to create a scalable infrastructure, and continue our commitment of delivering a phenomenal customer experience. We recently migrated to AMD powered instances using M5a, T3a, and C5a. Auvik seamlessly migrated over six hundred servers to AMD instances which allowed us to reduce EC2 costs by 10%, without sacrificing performance.

Dream11 is a fantasy sports platform with 100 million+ users. We are running in-memory databases on Amazon EC2 instances powered by AMD EPYC processors. We performed benchmark testing on the Amazon EC2 R5a instances and observed performance and throughput as expected. We run multiple clusters on Amazon EC2 instances powered by AMD EPYC, using r5a.large, r5a.xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, and r5a.4xlarge instance sizes. The adoption of EC2 instances with AMD EPYC processors was seamless because we used the same AMIs from our R5 instances. There were no software compatibility issues , and we were able to adopt AMD processors in just one week.