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I wonder what are the use cases for this kind of hardware?
by isbvhodnvemrwvn 6y ago
I wonder what are the use cases for this kind of hardware?
- vanviegen 6y agoVertical scaling, I assume. For some services that may even be a sensible option, given the development cost and flakiness of many horizontally scaled systems. But as usual, what AWS charges (1x hardware cost per month) seems a bit excessive.
- sascha_sl 6y agoMostly SAP, specifically HANA. That's what AWS markets them for anyway. The price of the machine at this scale is probably not even the main cost, as HANA licenses are based on RAM allocated.
- Spooky23 6y agoBig monolithic Java apps migrating from IBM power boxes. For when your bank/insurance company discovers that IBM didn’t rip them enough!