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> On the serve side, AWS Graviton3 and Ampere Altera are pushing server workloads to optimize for ARM. My hope is that eventually we'll get something as afford
by KronisLV 4y ago
> On the serve side, AWS Graviton3 and Ampere Altera are pushing server workloads to optimize for ARM.
My hope is that eventually we'll get something as affordable as Scaleway's old ARM offerings in budget cloud providers (e.g. Hetzner, Scaleway, maybe Vultr and DigitalOcean etc.). Ideally, I'd get an ARM VPS for a few euros a month with 4 GB of RAM or something to that order and would be able to host whatever I need on those for cheaper than the x86 equivalents. Going from something like 5 Euros/month per node to 3 Euros/month doesn't seem like a big change, but it adds up, especially when your workloads would be well served by multiple separate low performance nodes.
Of course, that'd be nice if I could easily build and test ARM container images or something to that tune from my x86 development machine, given that I already have the hardware and I doubt I'll personally be able to switch to ARM on the desktop/homelab CI nodes anytime soon. But hey, that's an inconvenience at worst, because you can still build things "in the cloud" from the source as well, provided that there aren't many ARM specific bugs, debugging which would be hard.