Accelerating Memcached on AWS Cloud FPGAs

Abstract

In recent years, FPGAs have been deployed in data centres of major cloud service providers, such as Microsoft [1], Amazon [2], Alibaba [3], Tencent [4], Huawei [5], and Nimbix [6]. This marks the beginning of bringing FPGA computing to the masses, as being in the cloud, one can access an FPGA from anywhere.