Cloud Computing Facts – 10 Reasons Intel Is Best for Cloud

You’re ready to migrate your workloads to the cloud, for all the best reasons: agility, performance, and the ease of managing your environment. But not all cloud transitions are as smooth— or as economical—as you might have heard. Make sure to do your homework to get the full story. Intel® processor-based virtual machines deliver for all your instances.

1. Performance for all workloads

AWS claims that Graviton2 is 40% faster than x86.

That might be true for some scenarios, but not for many common workloads. For example, Intel Xeon M5 instances outperform Graviton2 M6g in database, web/Java, and single-threaded computations up to 1.8x.1 Intel has the speed your business needs.

2. Which solution is cheaper?

AWS claims that Graviton2 is 20% cheaper. Our testing shows otherwise. Intel® Xeon® M5 instances led Graviton2 in price performance for a variety of common workloads2—and no additional investment is needed for software, like porting.

3. Just say NO to single-cloud porting

You may have heard that it’s no big deal to port your code from one architecture to another. However, porting takes time and money. It’s a complicated, intense process. Plus, ARM doesn’t run every software program out there, so when you’re ready to add new functionality from Intel, you’ll be stuck with the limitation of ARM and the long-term cost and hassle of managing multiple code bases.

4. Multicloud improves business stability

No one wants to limit their business agility by locking into a specific solution. Instead, build in flexibility by using common code that runs easily across many vendors and on prem. Intel-based instances ensure compatibility and supportability across multiple cloud solutions to help reduce business risk and keep your options open.

5. Use Microsoft and other ISV apps? Run on Intel

Intel has long-standing engineering and business relationships with the leading commercial software providers. That’s true for data center software like SAP and VMware as well as Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server, Dynamics, SharePoint Server, App-V Server, Endpoint Manager Server, and more. Intel processor-based instances are the better choice for crucial enterprise tools like these.

7. Security matters

Security is critical, yet Graviton2 doesn’t provide end-to-end application security. With Intel, it’s a fundamental part of the hardware. Intel® SGX5 is the most researched, updated, and battle-tested trusted execution environment (TEE) for data center confidential computing, with the smallest attack surface within the system. Intel® SGX confidential computing technology delivered in Intel 3rd Gen Xeon processors enables application isolation in private memory regions, called enclaves, to help protect code and data while in use.

8. HPC for the win

Think about your business high-performance computing needs. Are you reaching into your toolbox for LS-DYNA, Relion, Monte Carlo, Ansys Fluent, Converge, Altair RADIOSS, Siemens Star-CCM+, Dassault SIMULIA, or MSC Nastran? They run better on Intel processors today, and we improve their performance with every generation6 to deliver increasing value directly to your business. Intel is the better choice for HPC.

9. Scale to the skies

There are over 50,000 Intel-based instance types across multiple cloud platforms.7 That makes it easy to scale. And when you need the latest features, like integrated AI and crypto acceleration, that’s easy to scale too. These advanced platforms also include massive memory capacity, fast networking and storage with PCIe Gen4, plus 39% more memory bandwidth8 than previous generations. When you’ve got that kind of scalability in your cloud instances, the sky’s the limit.

10. Intel is the proven platform for your workload, in any cloud

When you specify Intel processor-based instances, you know who you’re dealing with. We’re the trusted provider of more than a billion cores to power the cloud, with a vast ecosystem of software and hardware solution partners that have tested, validated, and optimized their offerings on Intel® processors and platforms. It just works.

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