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They're still running prehistoric Intel Xeons. I'm sure they'll just rot slowly until the instances fail.
by baz00 3y ago
They're still running prehistoric Intel Xeons. I'm sure they'll just rot slowly until the instances fail.
- jamesfinlayson 3y agoThis - I've been seeing recent Fargate workloads mysteriously scaling due to high CPU even though there's no traffic. I started logging the CPU as part of task start-up and I've seen five year old Xeons running my workloads.
- dilyevsky 3y ago5 years aint too bad, on google their standard n1 class still runs Haswell in some cases which came out 10+ years ago
- jamesfinlayson 3y agoOuch. Possibly some are older - there were a few processor names that I couldn't find any release date for.
- dilyevsky 3y agoI ran cpu benches there a while ago and it actually performed better wrt single core performance than the newer shit so not all bad
- imglorp 3y agoWho cares, if it's priced appropriately? If I just need a generic x86 t2.nano or whatever, why not? They will run it til the card dies, chuck it in the bin when it does, and until then they can pass some of the savings to users hopefully, win win?
- HPsquared 3y agoNot great for energy efficiency, I guess. They might eventually dispose of them if running costs are too high compared to more modern chips.
- jamesfinlayson 3y agoThe price is the same though, regardless of what I'm getting, and I wouldn't care, except in my non-prod environments everything runs fine on some class of processor, while on my prod environment things didn't run fine and my cluster was maxed out because it was running on some old processor. I know that notionally it can and will run on different hardware in different environments, but if I can run a certain workload (idling at 10% in one environment), I expect to be able to do the same in another environment.