What will likely be one of the most under-reported announcements from AMD AI Day 2025 is the AMD Developer Cloud… It’s set to play a big role moving forward but today isn’t as exciting itself as the likes of the Instinct MI350 series and ROCm 7.0 software.
AMD announced the AMD Developer Cloud as their new cloud for enabling developers both large and small access to the Instinct MI350 series and other AMD hardware. This will help developers test their code on new AMD hardware already with the latest ROCm pre-installed and a nice environment for evaluating the performance potential of their new accelerators.
The concept isn’t new… In fact, at first I was very frustrated hearing “AMD Developer Cloud” in being well familiar with their prior similar efforts like the AMD Accelerator Cloud and AMD Cloud Platform. But after talking with AMD engineers more about the new AMD Developer Cloud, I am much more optimistic with their new solution.
They are now “running not crawling” with the AMD Developer Cloud effort, they will be ramping up much more quickly, and effectively “allowing anyone with a GitHub ID” access albeit will rely on developer credits. Plus there will be more to be announced at a later date that make more ambitious around AMD Developer Cloud and shifting my opinion from “ugh, yet-another-AMD-cloud attempt” to now being bullish on it. For the AMD software efforts on a whole now I am becoming reasonably confident in their software approach after their stumblings for years on ROCm (especially on the client side…) with it now shining on the horizon.
Stay tuned for more on the AMD Developer Cloud moving forward on Phoronix.
