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Exactly. In fact, I'm sure there will be newer x86 instances paired with the new NVMe storage and the advantage is lost. Perhaps, the power saved is translated
by aloknnikhil 7y ago
Exactly. In fact, I'm sure there will be newer x86 instances paired with the new NVMe storage and the advantage is lost.
Perhaps, the power saved is translated to cheaper instances. But I don't think it's worth the performance penalty.
- PeterCorless 7y agoMuch of this depends on whether an app has true linearity in scale-out. If you can use horizontal scalability, you can get the same (or better) aggregate performance while, as you note, still reap savings both in power and dollars. Similar by analogy to how SSDs allowed you to get "good enough" performance for a database compared to all-RAM instances. You could still meet your SLAs and pocket the difference. It's a game changer in that way.
- glommer 7y agoAgree that the advantage on storage is no ARM-specific. It is what it is on AWS and we have shown that. But the whole point is that the Arm platform is doing great. The CPU comparisons matter more