It seems a bit odd that AMD has two different but similar clouds with completely different branding and many people likely have never heard of either. Right now the AMD Accelerator Cloud and AMD Cloud Platform are two similar AMD clouds at the company albeit managed by different groups but hopefully with time they will merge into a single cloud. While Intel's Developer Cloud is focused on trying pre-production hardware like the upcoming Sapphire Rapids, Data Center GPUs, and other products, in the case of the AMD Cloud Platform right now it's about released but current hardware: AMD EPYC "Milan" CPUs and an assortment of different AMD Instinct accelerators being the current offerings. The AMD Cloud Platform (or the similar AMD Accelerator Cloud) has long been on my TODO list with having access to it for testing, albeit my TODO list is perpetually long and then Intel's DevCloud announcement reminded me of this long overdue evaluation. After trying out the AMD Cloud Platform, it's indeed an easy way to evaluate the latest AMD data center wares while having a easy-to-deploy, pre-configured software environment. The AMD Cloud Platform is a currently parallel effort to the Accelerator Cloud with the former intended more for developers while the latter is more customer-oriented. At the tail end of 2021, AMD announced the Accelerator Cloud as a way for trying out the latest EPYC CPUs and Instinct accelerators complete with a pre-configured ROCm compute software stack. Last week at Intel's Innovation conference the Intel Developer Cloud "DevCloud" was announced, while on the AMD side there is already something similar: the AMD Cloud Platform.
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