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No benchmarks. No FLOPs. No comparison to commodity hardware. I hate the cloud servers. "9 is faster than 8 which is faster than 7 which is faster than 6, ...,
by diath 10mo ago
No benchmarks. No FLOPs. No comparison to commodity hardware. I hate the cloud servers. "9 is faster than 8 which is faster than 7 which is faster than 6, ..., which is faster than 1, which has unknown performance".
- oofbey 10mo agoAs soon as they're publicly usable people benchmark them carefully. All currently available models have clear metrics.
- mmontagna9 10mo agoIf you're interested in using them you should just bench them yourself.
- 1x_engineer 10mo agoI’ve had terrible luck benchmarking EC2. Measurements are too noisy to be repeatable. The same instance of the wrong type can swing by double digit percentages when tested twice an hour apart.
- itomato 10mo agoYou need to benchmark a new EC2 instance anyway. If it’s out of spec, burn it down and redeploy.
- Kwpolska 10mo agoWhy is that needed, and how would you know if it’s out of spec?
- emidln 10mo agoHow: You've ran the test on a bunch of hosts and create a spec from ranges. Why: you might be concerned with network connectivity (you don't get to choose which data center you launch in and it might not be exactly equal), noisy neighbors on shared hosts, etc. if you're measuring for networking, you probably are spinning ups separate accounts/using a bank of accounts and something in every az until you find what you're looking for.
- itomato 10mo agoWhy: you’re paying for a service level that has no guarantee from the vendor
- renewiltord 10mo agoWho exactly believes manufacturer benchmarks? Just go run your benchmarks yourself and pick. Price/performance is a workload thing.
- sebazzz 10mo agoSince it will be a virtual machine, its performance can be arbitrarily reduced.