Leveling up Amazon RDS with AWS Graviton4: Benchmarks
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This article discusses the performance benchmarks of AWS Graviton4 processors for Amazon RDS, focusing on PostgreSQL database workloads.
- Graviton4 (m8g) instances show significant performance improvements over previous generations
- Achieved 41% higher queries per second compared to Graviton2 and 23% higher than Graviton3
- Reduced query latency by 29% compared to Graviton2 and 19% compared to Graviton3
- Provides better price-performance, processing 34% more queries per dollar than Graviton2
- Supports PostgreSQL versions 17.1, 16.1, 15.2, 14.5, and 13.8, along with MySQL and MariaDB
The benchmarks demonstrate that Graviton4 offers substantial performance and cost efficiency improvements for Amazon RDS database workloads.
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