AWS EC2 General Price Cut

Re:AWS EC2 General Price Cut by reacharavindh on Sunday May 10, 2020 @02:31AM (#23130720)

Not exactly what you asked for. But, we bought an AMD server to test at our HPC cluster. AMD EPYC 7302P (16cores, 32 threads), 512 GiB of 3200 MHZ RDIMM, 10GBE, 3.2TiB of 12Gbps SAS SSD. It came out to be approx 48000 DKK (excluding VAT). That is approx. $7000. Fewer cores machine with faster clocks and we mostly use it for its memory channels(8).

Our typical buy - 2 socket intel cascade lake Xeon Gold 6256(12 Cores, 24 threads) with 768 GiB of RDIMM costs us approx. 70000 DKK or $10200.

The biggest cost here is memory. Just to give you an idea.

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Re:AWS EC2 General Price Cut by ksec on Sunday May 10, 2020 @07:42AM (#23131890)

I was just thinking the other day when HN were discussion Cloud vs Metal. How little has the DRAM prices changed in the past 10 years. While CPU core went from 10 to 64 Core, ( Not exactly Moores's law at least it is 6.4x the difference ). DRAM median prices has remain mostly flat until recently, we finally got pass $10 /GB ECC RAM and are now close to $5/GB. Which is still very expensive.

SLC NAND SSD could be had for $0.4/GB, I failed to see why DRAM should be priced at 10x higher.

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