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Do you pay for computing cycles or for a computing instance? If your cloud provider lowers its performance/efficiency by 30%, isn't it up to its customers to s
by nomercy400 9y ago
Do you pay for computing cycles or for a computing instance?
If your cloud provider lowers its performance/efficiency by 30%, isn't it up to its customers to switch? But where to switch too? There's no choice among the big cloud providers. They all use Intel and AMD in varying amounts. As a cloud user you are stuck with Intel or AMD chips. Demand doesn't change, supply is lowered.
Looking at it like this, it is more likely that demand for cloud resources will rise, and as such revenue of the cloud providers will as well.
- FollowSteph3 9y agoMy guess is that it will help cloud providers. In most cases they don’t guarantee x operations per second but rather the type of cpu you get. If that type now gets 30% less performance you’re most likely going to have to pay 30% more. Again the guarantee is not on operations per second but either exact processor, class of processor, or processor units.