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What’s the current industry practice for blades? Does AWS GCP, Azure use them?
by akhilcacharya 8y ago
What’s the current industry practice for blades? Does AWS GCP, Azure use them?
- aviv 8y agoAzure does indeed.
- wmf 8y agoInterest in blades seems to have waned. They're still around but tray and twin form factors give similar density with less complexity.
- Twirrim 8y ago> Does AWS GCP, Azure use them? No. Cost / value is not in alignment there. You want your servers to be cheap and disposable. Plus lose the control plane and you lose all the blades within it. There's just no value to it unless you're doing workloads that benefit from a high degree of locality. Cloud services focus on having their networks be as fast as possible so as to reduce the disadvantage of not being highly local. Oracle (my employer), and AWS have been announcing various HPC cloud products where we're starting to focus on highly local, servers with fast interconnects, and it's still not looking at blades. HPC workloads are rather untapped by clouds so far, and it's a big market.
- akhilcacharya 8y agoI work AWS adjacent and I wish there was more externally facing information about how the DC's are operated. It seems like a really neat space.
- Twirrim 8y agoIt's more boring than you'd probably expect. Boring is simple, reliable and cheap. The less opportunities for things to go wrong, the better.