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Hi Radim, I understand that it is hard to stay on top of things in this fast-evolving market, but you omitted a few important things. 1. "Softlayer is also the

Hi Radim, I understand that it is hard to stay on top of things in this fast-evolving market, but you omitted a few important things. 1. "Softlayer is also the only platform that allows the provisioning of bare metal[...]": so does AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/announcing-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances-preview/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/announcin... 2. "Softlayer and AWS charge in hourly increments." AWS offers per-second billing: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-per-second-billing-for-ec2-instances-and-ebs-volumes/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-per-second-billing-for-... 3. Echoing @tedivm's comment, for a real comparison you'd really have to include GPUs. Do you plan to write a follow-up? (Disclaimer: I work for AWS)

Radim 9y ago
Hi Julian, happy to get feedback! 1. AWS launched this last week, after the benchmarks were finished & published -- can't take the blame for that :) Exciting news though. 2. Launched during the benchmarks -- sorry we missed this! 3. I disagree that CPUs are "not real", but, yes, we already ran some GPUs benchmarks (alluded to in this blog post, too). Stay tuned.
- JulianRaphael 9y ago
  Not blaming you at all, Radim - it's not easy to stay on top of the latest developments in this fast-moving space. This was great work and I hope you will continue running these benchmark test. Also, feel free to ping me via sameting@amazon.com if you need any help with anything AWS.