Why Amazon Web Services’ Graviton server chip could unleash a new era of cloud-native hardware

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One of the biggest announcements this week at re:Invent 2018 was the Graviton chip, a new custom-designed server processor based on the Arm architecture that AWS is immediately serving up to its cloud customers. Graviton won’t necessarily kick Intel out of the millions of servers humming in AWS data centers around the world, but it does represent a new era of hardware design in which AWS will be able to move fairly quickly based on customer feedback to introduce new chips designed for the cloud-computing era, during which many of the standard practices of the past have started to look outdated.