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The cost here is an artificial variable as it completely under the control of AWS. They can decide to sell them very cheap to lock people on AWS.
by greatpatton 6y ago
The cost here is an artificial variable as it completely under the control of AWS. They can decide to sell them very cheap to lock people on AWS.
- vorpalhex 6y agoYes but porting to other ARM nodes isn't difficult, and if you're already using AWS you're comfortable with a fair bit of lock-in already.
- floatboth 6y agoEC2 is just virtual machines. The lock-in parts of AWS are the ones where you're not exposed to stuff like CPU architectures.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoThis is generally true, but in the case of ARM instances, EC2 currently has no real competitors, as far as I know.
- nicoburns 6y agoMost software isn't cpu-architecture specific though. Switching from ARM on AWS to x86 on another providor is likely to be quite straightforward.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoThat's true. I'd even made the same point elsewhere :-P https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25881305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25881305
- floatboth 6y agoScaleway used to be one but they screwed it up and removed the offering (to be fair ThunderX1 is an early platform, not fully standards compliant etc. but argh it was working) Packet whatever their name is now (equinox metal or something) is a competitor but only against the bare metal instances, no cheap tiny VM product unfortunately. Huawei Cloud... has weird region restrictions for their arm offering but it exists??
- rchowe 6y agoBuying Annapurna Labs also means they don't have to contend with the chipmaker's margin on the Graviton chips -- Intel's margin on server chips seems to be quite high.
- sitkack 6y agoNobody pays retail.