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The long term effects of this are substantial. So long as Graviton performance is within 10-20% Amazon will get a Cloud pricing advantage that is unparalleled.
by DSingularity 6y ago
The long term effects of this are substantial. So long as Graviton performance is within 10-20% Amazon will get a Cloud pricing advantage that is unparalleled. The will have an unmatched TCO. Cloud providers are probably watching closely. If Microsoft is serious about cloud it will be making plays in this space.
- tpetry 6y agoBut Amazon still has a long way to go. All those benchmarks combined the graviton processor was half as fast as the epyc processor.
- jjeaff 6y agoWill they really get much cloud pricing advantage? Cloud compute is extremely expensive compared to bare metal hosting. That would suggest that cpu cost is not a leading factor in their pricing decisions.
- rbanffy 6y agoCloud computing is expensive compared to bare metal for sustained workloads. If you have a bursty load, you'll need to provision metal for the bursts that'll lay idle the rest of the time. On average, cloud will be cheaper.
- jjeaff 6y agoI disagree that cloud would be cheaper on average. Unless the burstiness is very, very bursty. And even in that case, you are going to need a lot of special stuff in place in the cloud to handle huge bursts since few cloud service actually scale automatically.