Arm Neoverse Enables Leading Cloud Performance and Cost Efficiency with AWS Graviton4
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September 16, 2025
Modern IT organizations are responsible for supporting a wide range of complex workloads, from traditional web and database workloads, to emerging AI and machine learning applications. Yet with this compute diversity comes an infrastructure challenge: balancing the high performance that applications demand with the cost constraints of operating at scale. Increasingly, enterprise IT organizations are turning to cloud services to meet these demands.
Major cloud service providers, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, offer organizations flexibility and access to a wide range of compute resources to meet the diverse requirements of modern workloads in the cloud. CPUs based on Arm’s Neoverse architecture, including AWS Graviton, Microsoft Azure Cobalt, and Google Cloud Axion, have emerged as compelling options for supporting key enterprise workloads. In fact, according to AWS, over the last two years, more than 50% of new CPU capacity added by AWS has been powered by Arm-based Graviton processors .
This report explores the performance and cost-efficiency benefits of Arm processors on AWS, specifically examining Arm Neoverse-powered AWS Graviton4 processors in comparison to the latest available generation AMD and Intel based AWS EC2 alternatives. As detailed in this Lab Insight Report, Signal65 conducted hands on performance testing and cost efficiency analysis across four distinct workloads to represent real world data center and AI scenarios and to showcase the broad performance and economic advantages of Arm Neoverse.
