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We can't really blame them for having tried. That was a killer idea. Get dedicated hardware, with all the security and performance consistency it implies, for
by jedisct1 7y ago
We can't really blame them for having tried.
That was a killer idea. Get dedicated hardware, with all the security and performance consistency it implies, for even cheaper than a VM instance.
And when it was introduced, it was really a game changer. And it worked really well.
Unfortunately, Docker images were and still are mostly for x86_64, and that didn't make adoption easy in spite of their efforts to help improve the situation.
The hardware eventually didn't prove to be as reliable as expected, so moving to more traditional hardware was a safe route to go.
Sad, but the instance types they have remain very compelling. The DEV1-S instance is only $2.99, with unmetered bandwidth.
I just moved two ARM64 instances to a DEV1-S. Same price, and even though that instance type has only 2 virtual cores instead of 4, it is actually much snappier ARM64 instances. Plus, I can scale up if necessary, while that wasn't really an option with ARM64 CPUs.