Cost-Optimize Your Next NGINX Plus Deployment with Amazon EC2 A1 Instances
Cost-Optimize Your Next NGINX Plus Deployment with Amazon EC2 A1 Instances As an NGINX user, you are probably familiar with Arm as an IP provider for smartphones, but you might not know that Arm also delivers solutions for a range of infrastructures, from cloud to edge. Arm has been investing in an infrastructure‑focused roadmap for a number of years and recently launched the Arm Neoverse brand specifically to deliver cloud to edge architectures, products, and solutions. The Arm Neoverse architecture is well‑suited for scale‑out, cloud‑native workloads like NGINX and NGINX Plus. Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced the Amazon EC2 A1 instance, based on the Arm Neoverse platform, at AWS re:Invent 2018. These instances use the AWS Nitro System and are the first instances powered by the AWS Graviton Processor, which features 64‑bit Arm Neoverse cores and custom silicon designed by AWS. [ more… ]