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Custom instructions / features that are only available on AWS silicon will improve their vendor lock-in. And thus would warrant short term price dumping. Futur
by nielsole 5y ago
Custom instructions / features that are only available on AWS silicon will improve their vendor lock-in.
And thus would warrant short term price dumping.
Future cost/performance improvements will allow them to raise their margin.
Kind of worried what that will mean for the portability of software long-term.
- my123 5y ago> Custom instructions / features that are only available on AWS silicon If there are custom instructions added, AWS customers aren't aware of them. Feature set pretty much unchanged too. It's a non-effect on that front.
- staticassertion 5y agoAre you 'locked in' to intel because of AVX? The cost of moving is recompiling your binary.
- nielsole 5y agoWhat I had in mind is CUDA vs. openCL Also the field is not static. Amazon does a lot of lobbying. Let's imagine you can check a certain legal compliance box simply by running on graviton. Or the next industry trend which might be funded and hyped by AWS requires a specific feature for isolation that only really works on graviton.