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."

AWS and GCP don't even come close to the number of configuration options Azure offers for this workload

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Liftr Insights, a pioneer in market intelligence driven by unique data, demonstrated how much further ahead Azure is compared to other major providers for certain workloads.

Liftr Insights has been tracking data on the cloud providers representing over 75% of the public cloud for over half a decade. Recent data show that Azure offered 17,157 unique configurations supporting High Performance Database workloads as of mid-year. The next closest was GCP at 1,323 followed by AWS at 1,032.

Liftr Insights data reveals differences of Oracle Cloud on many factors from number of cores to price per core, but not always.

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Liftr Insights, a pioneer in market intelligence driven by unique data, revealed that Oracle offers an average price of 5.1 cents per CPU core per hour, lower than the other cloud providers that represent 75% of the public cloud market.

Prices matter for enterprises consuming diverse workloads, particularly when they understand the importance of multi-cloud environments deployed across multiple regions of the world.

Liftr analysis shows lower prices at Azure than AWS for compute instance types with larger RAM

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Liftr Insights, a pioneer in market intelligence driven by unique data, demonstrated the price differences between Azure, AWS, and GCP cloud providers.

Liftr data show that the prices for Azure compute instances are higher, on average, than an equivalent price at AWS. This applies globally as well as regionally. However, Liftr data also demonstrate that consumers can get larger allocations of RAM at a lower overall price at Azure when compared to AWS. Put another way, moving from 32GB RAM to 64GB RAM costs more at AWS than an equivalent shift at Azure.