# Murat and Aleksey Read Papers: "Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass"

DevFeed: [Murat and Aleksey Read Papers: "Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass"](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/murat-and-aleksey-read-papers-cloudspecs-cloud-hardware-evolution-through-the-looking-glass-39548.md>)

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Author: Aleksey Charapko

Published: 2026-01-14T15:41:13Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Aleksey Charapko](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/aleksey-charapko.md>)

Topics: [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>), [dataset](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dataset.md>)

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## AI overview

This article reviews the CIDR paper "Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass," which examines AWS virtual hardware capabilities over ten years from a cost-efficiency perspective. The paper finds that cloud CPU cost efficiency improved about twofold, while core counts improved tenfold for non-Graviton offerings; network bandwidth cost efficiency improved substantially more. The article also notes limitations in the paper's analysis of memory bandwidth and specialized hardware features.

## Source excerpt

The "Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass" CIDR paper by Till Steinert, Maximilian Kuschewski, and Viktor Leis was the first paper I and Murat read this year. It was a short, but interesting read. Below is our reading video and my one-paragraph summary. The paper discusses the evolution of AWS cloud (virtual) hardware [...]