AWS Graviton 4: What Mid-Market Companies Should Know
AWS has launched Graviton 4, the latest generation of its custom ARM-based processors. Early benchmarks show 30-40% performance improvement over Graviton 3 for compute-heavy workloads, with particular gains in batch processing, ML inference, and data analytics.
For mid-market companies, the significance isn't just performance — it's cost. Graviton instances are already 20-30% cheaper than comparable x86 instances, and the performance gains in Graviton 4 widen that gap further.
The migration path from x86 to Graviton has also become significantly smoother, with most modern application stacks (Node.js, Python, Java, .NET 6+) running without modification on ARM.
Rezyl Take
If you're still running x86 instances on AWS, this is the migration signal. The performance-per-dollar gap is now too wide to ignore. We recommend starting with non-production workloads to validate compatibility, then migrating production workloads in phases. Our clients typically see 25-40% cost reduction with zero performance degradation.