3 ms·
Is it cheaper for the end user? If not, what's the point of using ARM over x86 besides ideological reasons?
by bserge 5y ago
Is it cheaper for the end user? If not, what's the point of using ARM over x86 besides ideological reasons?
- acdha 5y agoYes, that's why they offer them and have done numerous comparisons showing this as a cost-savings move?
- bserge 5y agoI don't know that's why I'm asking. Every comparison I've seen was cost saving for the datacenter.
- acdha 5y agoDo you mean end user as someone other than the buyer of a cloud service? That’s the context I was writing in - I’ve generally found things like https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/10/achieve-up-to-52-percent-better-price-performance-with-amazon-rds-using-new-graviton2-instances/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/10/achieve-u... to be accurate as long as you’re not radically switching instance types.