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It is. But being a statistical thing, it's rare for an individual small customer to hit. Probably more rare than running your own servers since they're cared
by monocasa 5y ago
It is. But being a statistical thing, it's rare for an individual small customer to hit. Probably more rare than running your own servers since they're cared for well.
- rejectedandsad 5y agoPlausible. If it is for one of the new AMD instances as someone else in the comments theorized I don't think they're heavily used by Amazon internally.
- monocasa 5y agoIt's a more prevalent problem at smaller nodes, but it's a general hyperscale problem. Modern datacenter CPUs are simply too complex to fully validate without increasing the cost so much that you're not competitive any more. Hyperscaling is very an exercise in thinking probabilistically. Everything fails without telling you, and that needs to be accounted for. It sort of approaches synthetic biology that way.