Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
by imtringued on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @07:08PM
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Yeah exactly, you're not going to skimp on the CPU by choosing ARM to save $500 a year when you have software that costs you thousands every single year. You're going to stick with x86_64 instead of the crappy budget option that doesn't even run your software.
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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
by asah on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @08:39PM
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Twist: enterprise software goes the way of IBM mainframes, with a small number of large customers paying crazy prices for compliance and customization, and everything in the hardware/software stack being 10+x more expensive than its commodity equivalent.
Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
by baroffoos on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:39AM
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Not every corporation has proprietary x86 binaries they need to run on a server. Every company I have worked at has had entirely open source server software and a few proprietary javascript libraries.