AMD Cloud Design Standards

Overview

Cloudamize and AMD have collaborated on three distinct designs that allow customers to target instance families backed by AMD CPUs. These designs incorporate the following core principles:

• Right-Sized Recommendations: Instances are selected based on actual performance telemetry from on-premises workloads.

• License Optimization: Leverages Reduced Core CPU Optimization (setting specific vCPU counts) to minimize Windows and SQL Server licensing overhead while maintaining performance.

• Economic Assumptions: All designs assume AWS On-Demand pricing and a 10% Network Load Factor (assuming 90% of traffic remains within the AWS network).

Design AMD Lowest Cost

Designed for cost-sensitive environments and workloads with variable utilization (e.g., Dev/Test).

• Processor Generations: Newest (5th Gen), Previous (4th Gen), and Legacy (3rd Gen) AMD EPYC.

• Allowed Instance Families:

  • Burstable: T3a (Included)

  • Compute: C6a, C7a, C8a

  • General: M6a, M7a, M8a

  • Memory: R6a, R7a, R8a, X8aedz

• Service Level Targets (SLT):

  • Target Peak CPU Threshold: 90%

  • Storage Capacity: 100%

Design AMD Easy Path

Designed for stable, production-ready migrations requiring a predictable 1-to-1 hardware mapping.

• Processor Generation: Only 3rd Gen AMD EPYC "Milan".

• Allowed Instance Families:

  • C6a (Compute), M6a (General), R6a (Memory).

• Exclude burstable (T) instance types to ensure dedicated CPU resources.

• Mapping: Fixed hardware mapping to ensure on-premises parity.

Design AMD Highest Performance

Designed for mission-critical, high-throughput applications (e.g., HPC, Big Data, SQL Enterprise).

• Primary Generation: Newest Generation Only (5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin").

• Primary Instance Families:

  • C8a, M8a, R8a, X8aedz

• Fallback Logic: If the newest generation is unavailable in a region, use:

  1. C7a, M7a, R7a

  2. C6a, M6a, R6a

• Constraints: Exclude burstable (T) instance types.

• Service Level Targets (SLT):

  • Target Peak CPU Threshold: 70% (Ensures 30% headroom for peak performance).

  • Storage Capacity: 120% (Over-provisioned for high-speed I/O).
    

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