That said, x86_64 images that require QEMU are much buggier than pure arm64 images. Terraform's x86_64 image, for example, will run into random network hangups

That said, x86_64 images that require QEMU are much buggier than pure arm64 images. Terraform's x86_64 image, for example, will run into random network hangups that the ARM image doesn't experience. It was bad enough for me to maintain my own set of arm64 Terraform images.