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Re:How to make Linux run fast again on Intel CPUs by Godel_unicode on Sunday October 13, 2019 @02:24PM (#21241909)
Why would that be the case? AWS makes no guarantees about the performance of their instances. If everything gets slower, the most likely thing that happens is high-scale customers need a correspondingly higher number of servers to handle their load.
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Re:How to make Linux run fast again on Intel CPUs by Rapzid on Sunday October 13, 2019 @02:55PM (#21242133)
AWS will care about performance per KW/h.

They also have in the past at least advertised the specific processor models different instance types use. Information is sprinkled around so that people who care can know what to expect..

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Re:How to make Linux run fast again on Intel CPUs by spurdoman77 on Sunday October 13, 2019 @02:55PM (#21242127)
Aws has a very nice lock in for their customers. They dont have to care much.
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Re:How to make Linux run fast again on Intel CPUs by dragonwriter on Sunday October 13, 2019 @05:15PM (#21243095)
> AWS makes no guarantees about the performance of their instances. I

They do for services that are higher-level than EC2, where cost/performance assumptions about the underlying instances used are built into the cost structure.

AWS tries very hard to get customers onto those higher-level managed services I stead of rolling their own on EC2.

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