Cloud Computing and
Network Infrastructure

Providing engineers and developers with the
tools to successfully adapt to rapidly changing
cloud computing and network needs.

Cloud Computing and Network Infrastructure

Tomorrow’s cloud infrastructure must be able to handle the ongoing rise in data and the effective processing of more complex workloads, while also increasing power efficiency and minimizing carbon footprint.

We help Google companies adopt Arm-based solutions quickly, so engineers and developers can readily address changing customer and market needs.

Hardware

Arm Neoverse processors are rooted in scalable efficiency and technology leadership, providing Google engineers with access to leading per-thread performance for cloud, hyperscale, and HPC workloads.

Software

Build, test, and optimize projects on the Arm64 architecture through open-source software support. Arm’s open-source engineering team supports 100+ open-source projects, enabling 100K+ AArch64 Docker Hub images and 1M+ CI/CD build minutes per month.

Neoverse: Delivers Leading Performance with Reduced Power Requirements

Neoverse N1

powers Google Cloud Platform. The Ampere Altra CPU, used in Tau T2A VMs, and the Intel "Mt. Evans" infrastructure processing unit are based on Neoverse N1.

Neoverse V2

also delivers market-leading integer performance for cloud and HPC workloads and introduces several Armv9 architectural security enhancements.

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Works on Arm: the Developer Dedicated Ecosystem

Works on Arm, a developer-dedicated ecosystem, reflects the importance we place on our Google company partners. It provides the foundation for an improved overall developer experience, making it easier to leverage the value of the Arm architecture.

Among other benefits, Works on Arm enables developers to explore Arm-based offerings from multiple cloud providers, including the Google Cloud Platform. The Google Cloud Tau T2A VMs are officially part of the Works on Arm program and they enable developers to reduce build times, run extensive test suites including better regression testing and bug resolution, and performance benchmarking and optimizations.

Open-source leadership: Arm provides R&D contributions across the open-source software ecosystem, including optimizing key languages, libraries and compilers, operating systems, container runtimes and orchestration, AI/ML frameworks, and cloud software workloads.

Software partnerships: We continue to build ISV partnerships across the software stack to enable commercially supported software for customer deployments.

Frictionless development: Works on Arm enables developers to build, test and optimize projects on the Arm architecture by providing free access to Arm-based developer platforms, cloud instances, and CI/CD environments.

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Google Cloud VMs Based on Arm

Hear about Neoverse from Sachin Gupta, VP and General Manager of Infrastructure at Google Cloud. He explains why the new T2A VMs on Google Cloud, powered by Arm Neoverse-based Ampere Altra processors, deliver exceptional single-threaded performance at a compelling price for cloud customers.

Arm SystemReady for Google Developers

From the data center to IoT devices at the edge and endpoints, industry must confront technology fragmentation and find the balance between standardization and differentiation.

Arm SystemReady addresses these challenges. It provides a formal set of compute platform definitions to cover a range of systems from the cloud to IoT and edge. And it’s supported by Google and a broad range of partners.

In essence, it’s a compliance-certification program based on the hardware and firmware standards, BaseSystem Architecture (BSA) and Base Boot Requirements (BBR) specifications, plus a selection of supplements.

It delivers hardware foundations for software that just works. From architecture and IP to libraries, runtimes, and compilers, Google developers can extract maximum performance by leveraging a full spectrum of infrastructure software.

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AWS Uses Neoverse to Drive Infrastructure Innovation

CASE STUDY

Network, storage, and security tasks can consume as much as 30 percent of a server’s CPU cycles for the resources required by an instance.

As a result, specialized processors are rapidly becoming an increasingly important segment in the cloud infrastructure industry.

To address this need, AWS created a dedicated processor optimized for these tasks. Using 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores, it developed its Graviton processors, which in turn power the AWS Nitro System.

The Nitro System delivers the best price/performance for cloud workloads running in Amazon EC2. AWS can now:

Focus CPU cycles on paying workloads, instead of infrastructure tasks.
Innovate faster.
Reduce cost for customers.
Deliver increased security and new instance types.

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A New Direction for Sustainability

To take on climate change, we must rethink the core elements of computing. This means new processor designs, new server architectures, and other disruptive approaches.

Arm has gathered an ecosystem of software developers, OEMs, chip designers, carriers, and others, to forge a blueprint for a more energy-efficient digital infrastructure.

At its foundation, Arm delivers improved performance, improved economics, and improved security. It rewrites the blueprint for cloud computing and delivers price/performance gains of up to 40% or more, all while ensuring energy efficiency and reduced carbon footprints.

In summary, Arm IP is designed to increase power efficiency and minimize carbon footprint so cloud infrastructure can handle exponential increases in data and process complex workloads without dramatic increases in power consumption.

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Arm’s focus on scalable efficiency and technology leadership enables engineers to access leading per-thread performance for infrastructure. And developers can build, test, and optimize projects, with full support, all while improving energy efficiency and reducing carbon footprint.