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For the eventual consumers of the servers at the discounted prices: are we going to see the price decrease benefits? If say GCP/AWS/Azure decide to build a DC
by nevi-me 5y ago
For the eventual consumers of the servers at the discounted prices: are we going to see the price decrease benefits?
If say GCP/AWS/Azure decide to build a DC in a new region, and they go blue primarily because of the discounts, would the pricing end up being slightly smaller than otherwise?
I can understand that electricity, cooling and other costs would have an influence; but I'm wondering whether performance & price per watt end up being passed or recouped downstream.
- jtdev 5y agoRuntime costs are generally higher for comparable Intel CPUs due to electricity usage… so I would not expect any cost reduction passed on to consumers in the scenario you describe.
- lmilcin 5y agoExactly. Energy usage and density are major costs. Data centers throw away perfectly good hardware because at some point if you factor in density and energy usage that CPU might be worth less than zero.
- chippiewill 5y ago> and they go blue primarily because of the discounts, would the pricing end up being slightly smaller than otherwise? I don't know about the others, but AWS already has different prices for ec2 for AMD vs Intel vs ARM. It's not a case of "going blue", they'll support anything that people will pay them for. Pricing tends to be dictated more by power usage than by hardware cost. For non-directly-ec2 backed services (like ECS and s3, as opposed to say RDS) I'd guess they'd go all in on ARM regardless for the power savings.
- wmf 5y agoI noticed that Azure is charging significantly less for Ice Lake even though the MSRP is the same.