Today we're super pumped to announce Arm powered runtimes on Vapor. Powered by AWS Graviton 2 processors, applications will see up to 20% better performance at a 20% cost reduction. The more computationally intensive operations you perform - the more benefit you will notice!
Getting started couldn't be easier. Just update the runtime in your application's vapor.yml file to php-8.2:al2-arm and redeploy! Voila - your application is now running on Arm.
Switching a Docker runtime from x86 to Arm is just as straightforward. First, update the runtime in your application's vapor.yml file from docker to docker-arm. Then, update your Dockerfile to build from laravelphp/vapor:php82 to laravelphp/vapor:php82-arm. After your next deployment, your application will be running on Arm architecture.
Vapor provides Arm support for our native and Docker runtimes for applications running on PHP >= 8.2. In addition, you should ensure you are running the latest Vapor CLI version in order to access the new architecture.
At Laravel, we strive to provide the most developer-friendly and robust PHP experience in the world. We hope you like this new addition to boost performance and save costs when running your serverless Laravel application using Vapor.