Amazon Web Services Partner KBR achieves 27% savings migrating to AWS Graviton
Public Sector Blog
This article details how KBR, a science and technology organization, achieved significant cost and performance improvements by migrating geospatial processing workloads from x86 to AWS Graviton processors.
- KBR achieved 33.5% cost savings and 27% faster processing with AWS Graviton migration
- M8g Graviton4 instances outperformed M7i x86 baseline by 27.09% in performance testing
- Hourly costs reduced 11% ($0.1795 vs $0.2016) while maintaining data accuracy within 0.002%
- Projected 15-year savings of $1.9 million (2026-2040) by switching to M8g instances
- Migration used Amazon EKS, S3, Lambda, and multi-architecture Docker builds for ARM64 support
- Recommended deployment uses M7g for persistent workloads and M8g for ephemeral tasks
AWS Graviton processors deliver cost-effective, high-performance solutions for compute-intensive geospatial processing while maintaining scientific accuracy and data integrity.
The AWS News Feed is currently looking for gold sponsors. If you want to support the AWS community and reach a large audience of AWS professionals, consider sponsoring the AWS News Feed.
Related articles
2026
2026
2026
2026
The AWS News Feed is currently looking for silver sponsors. If you want to support the AWS community and reach a large audience of AWS professionals, consider sponsoring the AWS News Feed.