Liftr Insights data reveals extent of Azure's deployment; following AWS's lead almost a decade prior.
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Liftr Insights, a pioneer in market intelligence driven by unique data, revealed data showing the first appearance of Azure's Cobalt CPU on the ARM architecture.
Liftr data has shown the first appearance of the Cobalt CPU designed by Azure. These new instance types, first appearing in 21 different regions across 4 continents, are run on the ARM architecture and will complement the existing ARM-based instances at Azure, which were sold to Azure by Ampere Computing.
"Our customers and the supply chain has been talking about this shift to 'home-grown' coming for years," says Tab Schadt, CEO of Liftr Insights. "Many years back, AWS forged ahead to prove the value of running instances on their own designs."