Group Elephant’s AWS practice delivers high-performance, cost-efficient and sustainable cloud systems on AWS powered by AMD.

The Group’s AWS services practice, a specialist in deploying and managing SAP systems on AWS, has announced a strategic alliance with AMD, a global leader in high-performance computing.

The arrangement combines SAP and AWS workload modernization know-how, with the price-performance and energy efficiency of AMD EPYC™ processor-powered Amazon EC2 instances, providing enterprises with a robust path to cloud optimization.

The alliance blends high performance for mission-critical workloads, strong value for money, energy efficiency, widespread availability, and a platform for advanced analytics, AI/ML and real-time financial processing.

‘Our collaboration with AMD allows us to offer clients the best of both worlds: compute infrastructure that is faster, cheaper and more energy-efficient than alternatives, combined with our proven expertise in AWS cloud migrations,’ said Group Elephant’s Chris Townsend. ‘These synergies enable enterprises to extract meaningful incremental value from their cloud investments while achieving modernization goals,’ he added.

In a recent engagement with a major public-sector organization, the practice migrated mission-critical workloads from Intel-based EC2 instances to AMD EPYC processor-powered instances. The result was a notable reduction in AWS spend and improved performance consistency across the environment.

‘AMD EPYC processor-powered instances on AWS deliver leadership price-performance, scalability and efficiency for the most demanding cloud-based workloads,’ said Suresh Andani, CVP at AMD. ‘Together with Group Elephant’s AWS services practice, we’re pairing EPYC price-performance and energy efficiency with proven AWS and SAP expertise so organizations can modernize faster and scale analytics and AI’, he added.

This partnership builds on the Group’s ongoing expansion within the AWS ecosystem, including its AWS Premier Tier Partner designation.