Amazon Web Services (AWS) has finalized a multiyear, multibillion-dollar agreement to supply Meta Platforms with crucial cloud infrastructure.
The deal focuses on AWS's Graviton central processing units (CPUs), with Meta acquiring access to tens of millions of Graviton cores to power its artificial intelligence agents.
The latest Graviton processor, Graviton5, features 192 cores and utilizes Arm Holdings' instruction set architecture, optimized for AI workloads. AWS states Graviton5 offers a 25% performance increase over its predecessor, partly due to a significantly larger L3 cache which accelerates data processing.
CPUs like Graviton5 play a vital role in AI clusters by coordinating graphics cards and powering AI agent tools. The Graviton5 is designed to integrate with the AWS Nitro System, which offloads infrastructure management tasks to specialized accelerators, maximizing computing capacity for customer applications.
"AWS has been a trusted cloud partner for years, and expanding to Graviton allows us to run the CPU-intensive workloads behind agentic AI with the performance and efficiency we need at our scale," said Santosh Janardhan, Meta's head of infrastructure.
This agreement follows Meta's recent multi-billion dollar deal to adopt Arm's new AGI CPU, signaling a strategic expansion of its AI hardware capabilities.