Elastic is the leading data analytics platform for Observability, Security, and Search powered applications. At Elastic, we tested the i4g instances, the latest addition to the storage-optimized instances family, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. Across the benchmarks that represent the performance of common use-case patterns of customers using Elasticsearch, we saw up to 35% better price-performance compared to the previous generation I3 instances. We are excited about the introduction of i4g instances which promises to provide improved price-performance for Elasticsearch users deploying on AWS.

Sprinklr provides a unified customer experience management (Unified-CXM) platform that combines different applications for marketing, advertising, research, customer care, sales, and social media engagement. As a cloud-first company, Sprinklr is always looking to improve efficiency and optimize its cost savings. Sprinklr’s datasets require very low I/O latency and need high performance. After testing out, Amazon EC2 I4g instances, Sprinklr is seeing on average a 12% improvement in overall performance and up to 27% in some cases versus Amazon EC2 I4i instances. Sprinklr is looking forward to taking advantage of the compute price performance of Amazon EC2 I4g instances to provide faster results for their customers while optimizing costs.

Aerospike is excited to have their customers use the recently launched Amazon EC2 I4g storage optimized instance family. Our customers make use of the existing i3 and i4i storage optimized instance families, which deliver high performance local NVMe storage and come with the disk to memory ratios that work well for our Hybrid Memory ArchitectureTM. Aerospike, supports the AWS Graviton processor platform. In our testing of the Graviton2, for CPU bound workloads, we found a 1.6x improvement in price performance. We’re excited by the launch of I4g instances and look forward to have customers obtain the price performance savings.

We run C/C++ based workloads for indexing and searching event data. Our workload is CPU-bound and benefits from high-capacity and low-latency SSD storage. When evaluating the new Im4gn/Is4gen instances powered by AWS Graviton2, we observed an up to 50% decrease in search runtime compared to I3/I3en instances, which we currently use. This makes Im4gn and Is4gn instances a great choice for running our storage-intensive workloads with significant price performance benefits.

As part of our continued effort to improve performance and reduce our TCO to maximize cost savings for our customers, we've actively benchmarked our OpenSearch workloads on AWS Graviton2-based Is4gen instances. These tests illustrated that with smaller clusters of Is4gen instances we were able to achieve optimal performance while yielding a 25% cost savings, compared to i3en instances. We are looking forward to moving all of our OpenSearch production workloads to Is4gen instances while working to benchmark additional workloads including our Kubernetes microservices and Kafka components.

Honeycomb develops an observability platform that enables engineering teams to visualize, analyze, and improve cloud application quality and performance. We were able to validate our Kafka workload against preview instances of the im4gn instance family. Without needing to modify our Confluent Platform configuration, we have seen a +43% price-performance improvement on im4gn.4xlarge for our workload over equivalent i3en.6xlarge instances. We're excited by the guaranteed high-network throughput and higher-performance cores, allowing us to better match the shape of our workload to available instance families.

We are excited to partner with Amazon Web Services to bring the full benefits of our software-defined data storage solution to AWS Graviton. Porting to Graviton2-based instances was much easier than we anticipated when taking into account the highly-optimized nature of Lightbits software. Early testing shows that Lightbits on Graviton2-based Is4gen instances can deliver up to 20% price performance improvement as compared to x86-based I3en instances. With AWS Graviton, Lightbits can deliver high performance, resilient data storage that is easy to use and provides greater efficiency to its customers.