Packet, Ampere Take On AWS With Bare Metal Arm Servers

Startups Packet and Ampere are taking on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with their new partnership that puts Ampere’s Arm-based servers in Packet’s bare metal cloud data centers. AWS also offers Arm-based compute instances in its public cloud, but Packet and Ampere say theirs is more powerful. Ampere is a chip company that launched in early 2018 by former Intel president Renee James. Its Arm-based eMAG processors have 32 cores operating at 3.3 GHz. Packet is a bare metal cloud and edge computing company. Jacob Smith, co-founder and chief marketing officer at Packet, said the new Ampere platforms represent a major upgrade from its 2016 Arm-based servers. “It represents big-boy Arm, for serious workloads,” he said.