This is exciting! I use AWS's existing a1 generation for map-reduce jobs on the Common Crawl. They're slower in absolute terms than the Intel-based c5 generati

This is exciting! I use AWS's existing a1 generation for map-reduce jobs on the Common Crawl. They're slower in absolute terms than the Intel-based c5 generation, but are cheaper on a $/GB-processed basis. This is despite my runtime of choice (the JVM) being much more heavily optimized for x86 than for ARM. I can imagine there's a lot of headroom for improvements both at the hardware level and at the software optimization level as adoption grows.