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 sgt on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:12AM (#22923520)

I guess most companies could easily just run their code on x64 without porting necessary. How many clients would have ARM64-specific code running that absolutely would not run on x64? What Scaleway did is not ideal, but I think you are blowing it out of proportion.

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Re:Scaleway C2 and ARM64 instances will reach end-of-life in... by londons_explore on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:52AM (#22923795)

Not everyone has a "one click build" process.

The images run on the machines might be binaries licensed from vendors which are ARM. Have fun calling every vendor and saying "Yeah, I know you completed your contract with us 4 years ago, but would you mind recompiling the whole project as x64?".

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Re:Scaleway C2 and ARM64 instances will reach end-of-life in... by khuey on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:24AM (#22923607)

How many people with generic non-ARM specific code would bother running it on an ARM instance?

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Re:Scaleway C2 and ARM64 instances will reach end-of-life in... by floatboth on Monday April 20, 2020 @05:38PM (#22928892)

I run my website on an AWS a1 instance, but I'm not many people :D

But really the answer is "enough people for Amazon to invest heavily in manufacturing custom CPUs"

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Re:Scaleway C2 and ARM64 instances will reach end-of-life in... by bzusb on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:31AM (#22923646)

I have arm instances for the sole reason that they are cheaper than x86 instances.

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Re:Scaleway C2 and ARM64 instances will reach end-of-life in... by zdkl on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:31AM (#22923648)

Well, they were pretty cheap so if you could live slower execution python/java worked fine as an example

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Re:Scaleway C2 and ARM64 instances will reach end-of-life in... by reitzensteinm on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:34AM (#22923669)

It's highly unlikely to be a showstopper, but you have to actually install, configure and test the software on those new images.

Scaleway just decided that you're not shipping any code today, you're retooling your configuration.

I don't think it's that bad, but it's not something a platform you trust to run anything valuable on would ever do.

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Re:Scaleway C2 and ARM64 instances will reach end-of-life in... by daneel_w on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:26AM (#22923617)

I agree, especially with the consideration that they gave us an 8 month notice to vacate currently allocated instances.

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