It clearly performs and scales a lot better than the Intel CPUs (no doubt also benefiting from the increased memory bandwidth) and at high core counts is very close to the Graviton2.
Furthermore, I agree that the “investment costs” for Amazon are almost minute, they might have already earned it back.
The updated chart is included in the post or you can find it here: https://blog.min.io/content/images/2020/06/single-socket-per...
It clearly performs and scales a lot better than the Intel CPUs (no doubt also benefiting from the increased memory bandwidth) and at high core counts is very close to the Graviton2.
Furthermore, I agree that the “investment costs” for Amazon are almost minute, they might have already earned it back.