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Feb 19, 2025, 10:38 ET
Azure is one of the clouds showing strong Arm adoption, as shown by Liftr Insights data
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Liftr Insights, a pioneer in market intelligence driven by unique data, released an article about Azure showing that 33% of all instances deployed by Microsoft Azure in Q4 2024 were using their Arm-based CPUs.
The data show that all of these new Arm instances were the newly released chipset called “Cobalt”. The article outlines the impact of the latest release, including the potential impact on Ampere Computing, which has been providing the Arm-based instances to Azure until recently.
The article outlines the impact of the latest release, including the potential impact on Ampere Computing.Post this
“In addition to the performance benefits of Arm, Liftr data such as what is included in this report, helps our customers make data-driven decisions about their infrastructure,” says Tab Schadt, CEO of Liftr Insights.
The wide variety of datapoints in the article help readers understand the pros and cons of Arm and Cobalt for their own purposes. Among the datapoints are mentioned examples of cost comparisons and potential savings in different regions across the globe. Workload percentages are also shared and compared to the workloads for these latest Cobalt instances.
The information in this Cobalt article provides a solid beginning for market intelligence analysts forecasting, planning, or considering the pros and cons of implementing Cobalt for their enterprise.
For over six years, Liftr has been providing data to customers ranging from Financial Services firms making investment decisions to semiconductor vendors.
“Anyone would recognize the names of the firms and enterprises using our data,” says Schadt. “They all know that smart decisions start with reliable data.”
The article can be found at https://liftrinsights.com/series/arm-rising/arms-influence-rising-at-microsoft. Liftr Insights also recently started a series of articles focused on AI models, while this current series is focused on Arm.
About Liftr Insights
Liftr Insights generates reliable market intelligence using unique data. Liftr Insights cloud and semiconductor data cover the globe and represent census data for over 75% of the public cloud. Liftr Insights subject matter experts translate company-specific service provider data into actionable alternative data, including details about configurations, components, deployment geo, and pricing for:
- Server processors: Intel Xeon, AMD EPYC, Aliyun Yitian, AWS Graviton, Azure Cobalt, Google Axion, NVIDIA Grace, and Ampere Computing Altra
- Datacenter compute accelerators: GPUs, FPGAs, TPUs, and AI chips from NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, AWS, Google, and Qualcomm
- Public cloud AWS, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Tencent Cloud, CoreWeave, Lambda, and Vultr.
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SOURCE Liftr Insights