Scaleway delivers cost-optimized Ampere Altra instances as an alternative for AI workloads

The French cloud computing infrastructure provider Scaleway SAS today announced the availability of what it calls Cost-Optimized instances based on the Arm central processing unit architecture, targeted at real-time artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads.

The cost-optimized COP-ARM instances are powered by Ampere Computing LLC’s Ampere Altra CPUs, which are said to be a more cost-effective and high-performing alternative to Intel Corp’s x86 processors.

Scaleway is a cloud infrastructure provider that targets developers and scaling businesses with more affordable services than those offered by giants such as Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google Cloud. Among its services, it offers web hosting, cloud hosting, dedicated servers, private…