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Re:Firecracker now supports raspberry pi 4B by edude03 on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:01PM (#21449486)
Really it's more that the firecracker supports ARMv8 64bit, and the author tested it on a raspberry pi (as well as a HiKey970 board) but anyway.

This is really cool we'll likely see custom arm servers running in AWS as a way to reduce cost / improve scalability.

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Re:Firecracker now supports raspberry pi 4B by lathiat on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:20PM (#21449581)
They already have ARM instances; https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/a1/
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Re:Firecracker now supports raspberry pi 4B by Abishek_Muthian on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @12:37AM (#21449937)
Other providers like scaleway has been offering ARM servers for a while now[1].

[1]:https://www.scaleway.com/en/virtual-instances/arm-instances/

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Re:Firecracker now supports raspberry pi 4B by edude03 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:58AM (#21452907)
* arm instances for Lambda workloads. Do you know if you can choose your architecture when deploying a function? I'd be curious to see the performance of node on x86 vs aarch64
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Re:Firecracker now supports raspberry pi 4B by Hamuko on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @12:25AM (#21449891)
Is it just me or are those ARM instances rather expensive compared to other EC2 options?
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Re:Firecracker now supports raspberry pi 4B by viraptor on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @02:09AM (#21450333)
It's the price for a not-very-specific vcpu. Your performance could be better on the A family, more than offsetting the price difference. Of you're really considering the choice - you should test your workload on both. Or maybe they save you time in a different way - for example you save time not having to run a virtualised linker after cross-compiling.
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Re:Firecracker now supports raspberry pi 4B by Twirrim on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @01:16AM (#21450125)
It's the first generation of the hardware. I'd imagine the costs will start to come down over time as they ramp up the supply chains.
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Re:Firecracker now supports raspberry pi 4B by justincormack on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @04:04AM (#21450802)
No, previously there were issues with the virtual interrupt controller, and it was running on Arm64 servers but not the pi4.
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