5 engineers on Hacker News describe using AWS Graviton first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“we migrated a bunch of compute to Graviton a few years ago at a previous employer and the result was better performance at a lower price point.”
endorse · production · TYPE_FASTER · 2026-03-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Switching to Gravitron isn't an automatic cost savings. Everything is optimized for x86. It maybe cheaper, but significantly slower.”
regret · production · 1 yr · adrr · 2022-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“First graviton is not magic. We switched our main service... and did not get any cost improvement”
mixed · production · forty · 2022-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've started moving to graviton3 which is better bang for buck.”
endorse · production · aidos · 2022-06-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched our nodejs workload to graviton (c6g from c5), and it resulted in needing more instances”
neutral · production · forty · 2021-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?