2 years ago

2020 was the year that ARM chips made the headlines by moving from largely mobile form factors into the cloud thanks to AWS Graviton2, allowing you to have up to 40% better price performance over comparable current generation x86 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances. One recurring question we hear is “Graviton2 is great, but how can my team develop for ARM natively without the complexity of cross-compilation or having to buy custom hardware on premises?”

An internal facing Application Load Balancer containing the AWS Certificate Manager certificate decrypts and forwards traffic to this instance.

For this walkthrough, the following are prerequisites: In order to deploy our architecture, I use the AWS CDK.

Session Manager is enabled to allow access to the EC2 instance and configure the Code Server application and associated plugins.