<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ignoramous</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;None of the other cloud providers are using ARM at this scale yet. They’re using Ampere chips, whereas Amazon invested in building their own - it tells you the level of commitment Amazon have here.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;James Hamilton was adamant AWS build ARM expertise in-house [0] (one which they accelerated by acquiring &lt;i&gt;Annapurna Labs&lt;/i&gt;), and he&amp;#x27;s been proven right [1] despite the obstacles he himself foresaw [2].&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;i&gt;On the Origins of AWS Custom Silicon&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;4k5ul&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;4k5ul&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;i&gt;Low cost, low power servers for Internet-scale services&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mvdirona.com&amp;#x2F;jrh&amp;#x2F;talksandpapers&amp;#x2F;JamesHamilton_CEMS.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mvdirona.com&amp;#x2F;jrh&amp;#x2F;talksandpapers&amp;#x2F;JamesHamilton_CEMS.p...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;i&gt;AWS Designed Processor: Graviton&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;WLFBW&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;WLFBW&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>fourfour3</author><text>Entirely unsurprising - we know Amazon uses their own ARM CPUs internally for large swathes of AWS infra and services.&lt;p&gt;None of the other cloud providers are using ARM at this scale yet. They’re using Ampere chips, whereas Amazon invested in building their own - it tells you the level of commitment Amazon have here.&lt;p&gt;My employer is moving workloads to ARM on AWS as it’s much better for price&amp;#x2F;perf, and our shiny new M1&amp;#x2F;M2 Macs run the same binaries. We’ve had very little issue doing the shift - Amazon Linux and Debian both support ARM well.&lt;p&gt;Must be really putting a dent in Intel’s data centre sales though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/08/amazon_arm_servers/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheDong</author><text>&amp;gt; and our shiny new M1&amp;#x2F;M2 Macs run the same binaries&lt;p&gt;Does that mean you&amp;#x27;re all running asahi linux, or are you somehow running linux elf binaries on macOS?&lt;p&gt;Or are you using VMs, just like the x86 + docker desktop folks are doing to run the same binaries on their laptops and servers?</text><parent_chain><item><author>fourfour3</author><text>Entirely unsurprising - we know Amazon uses their own ARM CPUs internally for large swathes of AWS infra and services.&lt;p&gt;None of the other cloud providers are using ARM at this scale yet. They’re using Ampere chips, whereas Amazon invested in building their own - it tells you the level of commitment Amazon have here.&lt;p&gt;My employer is moving workloads to ARM on AWS as it’s much better for price&amp;#x2F;perf, and our shiny new M1&amp;#x2F;M2 Macs run the same binaries. We’ve had very little issue doing the shift - Amazon Linux and Debian both support ARM well.&lt;p&gt;Must be really putting a dent in Intel’s data centre sales though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/08/amazon_arm_servers/</url></story>