Amazon and microsoft migrate to epyc due to intel vulnerabilities

The latest vulnerabilities in Intel processors, which is affecting both desktops and data centers, would be forcing giants like Microsoft and Amazon to migrate their Intel servers to the AMD EPYC or ARM platform.

Microsoft has almost doubled the use of EPYC on its Azure platform

The migration of Microsoft with its Azure and Amazon platform would have started massively in April, especially on the side of those of Redmond.

#ZombieLoad @Intel Xeon exploit might accelerate @AMDServer EPYC & @Arm server adoption by #cloud providers 2h2019. Here's #EPYC share of instances at @awscloud @Azure past two months.

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- Liftr Insights (@LiftrInsights) May 15, 2019

According to the data provided by Liftr Cloud Insight, during the month of March, the use of EPYC processors occupied 18% in Amazon Web Services and 7.5% in Azure. For the month of April, that figure increased to 18.9% in Amazon Web Services and 13.1% in Azure. In other words, Microsoft has almost doubled the use of EPYC processors in just one month, while the increase in EPYC's participation in Amazon was more moderate.

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It is possible that these two giants already knew of the existence of these vulnerabilities before they came to light during this month of May and have accelerated the migration to AMD EPYC. This would make sense, considering that the new generation of EPYC processors would arrive in a matter of months, so it wouldn't be worth investing now, unless it is strictly necessary for security reasons (As it seems to be the case).

With these MDS vulnerabilities, Intel could lose even more clients in the server arena than anticipated by the arrival of EPYC at 7nm. We will have to wait and see if this trend is confirmed, but things are not looking good for the company of Sunnyvale.

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