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I really liked Scaleway's ARM offering as long as it lasted. The old native one (no virtualization). It was rock-solid in my experience.
by usr1106 5y ago
I really liked Scaleway's ARM offering as long as it lasted. The old native one (no virtualization). It was rock-solid in my experience.
- KronisLV 5y agoYou kind of have to wonder about why it didn't work out and become more popular to keep the product around. Then again, i feel the same way about Intel Atom and most other low-power offerings - it puzzles me that they never got big. Having low cost/high density options for hosting stuff online would be pretty great. After all, lots of people already run Raspberry Pi clusters at home.
- petercooper 5y agoI'm very open to corrections, but from what I recall of it, it was extremely custom to them, in terms of hardware, and seemed experimental. I suspect the logistics of managing a lot of custom equipment that wasn't making big money (as Amazon does with Graviton) wouldn't have been super appealing long term.
- usr1106 5y agoI had the same impression. For a turnover of 50 EUR per year and instance it was hard to see (for me as a complete outsider) how it could be an interesting business. Amazon charges more (as usual...), I know even less about their hardware.
- petercooper 5y agoThe advantage Amazon has is that their hardware isn't really their USP whereas those Arm devices were for Scaleway at the time. While AWS does make a song and dance about Graviton (and quite rightly, IMO) AWS can really develop and shuffle in whatever tech they want behind the scenes as long as it runs customer workloads.