Uber embraces the cloud with customized CPUs [Video]

The ridesharing and delivery giant has turned to Oracle and Ampere Computing to meet its specialized cloud needs at 15 million predictions per second.

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When Uber decided in 2022 to shift away from running its own data centers, the ridesharing and delivery company wanted a high level of control for how its workloads ran in the cloud, down to the CPU level.

Uber, which had formerly housed more than 90% of its infrastructure in its own data centers, turned to Oracle and Google in 2023 to be its cloud providers in an effort to shift nearly “everything” away from its own on-premises infrastructure.

Now, Uber is partnering with Ampere Computing to give it more control over how its workloads run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Ampere, a US fabless semiconductor firm founded in 2017 by former Intel President Renée James, began supplying chips to Oracle in 2021. Now, 95% of Oracle’s services run …