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The reason I have submitted the migration document instead of official announcement is because there isn't any as of writing. I received a mail few hours back
by Abishek_Muthian 7y ago
The reason I have submitted the migration document instead of official announcement is because there isn't any as of writing.
I received a mail few hours back informing[1] that the ARM64/C2 instances would be retired by Dec 1 and technical support will end on Jul 1. The reason for the retirement is vague, the email mentions 'several stability issues'.
I've personally been running one of my projects on ARM64[2] for nearly a year and haven't had any major issues except reboot require power cycling.
The announcement sounds fishy, it's not the first time Scaleway has retired its low tier instances[3], I suspect it do more with their Business than actual stability. I've recommended Scaleway's ARM instances several times, even here on HN; But now I'm reconsidering my options as I've been using ARM for my compute needs for a while now to align with my carbon goals.
Update: Official forum discussion[4], looks like others feel the same way.
[1] Someone else have posted the email content on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/g11uuj/scaleway_retiring_their_arm64c2_instances/ https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/g11uuj/scaleway...
[2]https://needgap.com https://needgap.com
[3]https://blog.scaleway.com/2018/introducing-scaleway-nextgen-nvme-cloud-servers-with-hot-snapshots/ https://blog.scaleway.com/2018/introducing-scaleway-nextgen-...
[4]https://community.scaleway.com/t/c2-arm64-instances-end-of-life/8677 https://community.scaleway.com/t/c2-arm64-instances-end-of-l...
- Scaleway 7y agoThank you for your feedback and sorry for your disappointment. As explained in our email, Scaleway’s C2 and ARM Instances suffer from random instabilities that prevent us to keep market them, even if they were not all impacted by these issues. We would love to propose new ARM Instances in the future, but nothing is planned at the moment. We’re just investigating the hardware, but be assured that you will be kept informed. Regards -AA
- Abishek_Muthian 7y agoI appreciate the reply, but I would expect a detailed technical analysis of the issues faced by scaleway with these instances and a more detailed reasoning in a separate blog post. The mention of this retirement on just the migration document seems unforthcoming.