Scaleway C2 and ARM64 instances will reach end-of-life in December 2020

Re:Scaleway C2 and ARM64 instances will reach end-of-life in... by quezzle on Monday April 20, 2020 @08:40AM (#22923324)

What’s the benefit of arm cloud instances to consumers?

None I can think of.

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Re:Scaleway C2 and ARM64 instances will reach end-of-life in... by GordonS on Monday April 20, 2020 @06:04PM (#22929199)

Aside from price, you could argue they are better for the environment because they use less power, which matters to a segment of consumers.

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Re:Scaleway C2 and ARM64 instances will reach end-of-life in... by ksec on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:58AM (#22923839)

Price, assuming they can get the ARM CPU for cheap, and it uses much less energy than alternative.

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Re:Scaleway C2 and ARM64 instances will reach end-of-life in... by stevekemp on Monday April 20, 2020 @08:44AM (#22923344)

I wanted an monitoring host, which would just run HTTP/SSH/PING/FTP tests against my real infrastructure. So I googled providers with decent reviews that were cheap.

I ended up with an ARM instance, which was just fine for me. Since my monitoring application[1] was golang based it was a quick cross-compile to get a binary I could deploy to the host. The host itself ran Debian , and all the packages I'd expect were easily available.

TLDR: Cheap and easy to deploy to.

1 - https://github.com/skx/overseer/

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Re:Scaleway C2 and ARM64 instances will reach end-of-life in... by rwmj on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:08AM (#22923490)

I guess this is what Nuvia is trying to change. They are reputed to be bringing the power-saving features of ARM to ARM servers. (https://nuviainc.com/)

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Re:Scaleway C2 and ARM64 instances will reach end-of-life in... by pas on Monday April 20, 2020 @08:42AM (#22923338)

In theory, price.

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