Why Cloudflare Chose AMD EPYC for Gen X Servers

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This post details Cloudflare's adoption of AMD EPYC processors for its Gen X server platform, marking a departure from Intel components. It highlights performance benchmarks, including a 36% increase in requests processed and a 50% decrease in L3 cache miss rate compared to Gen 9 servers. The post also discusses the impact of cache locality, performance tuning with AMD, and the integration of AMD's Secure Memory Encryption (SME) feature for enhanced security.