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Re:PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances by floatboth on Friday January 22, 2021 @07:43PM (#25878317)
EC2 is just virtual machines. The lock-in parts of AWS are the ones where you're not exposed to stuff like CPU architectures.
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Re:PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances by MaxBarraclough on Saturday January 23, 2021 @05:39AM (#25881290)
This is generally true, but in the case of ARM instances, EC2 currently has no real competitors, as far as I know.
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Re:PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances by floatboth on Sunday January 24, 2021 @06:02AM (#25891045)
Scaleway used to be one but they screwed it up and removed the offering (to be fair ThunderX1 is an early platform, not fully standards compliant etc. but argh it was working)

Packet whatever their name is now (equinox metal or something) is a competitor but only against the bare metal instances, no cheap tiny VM product unfortunately.

Huawei Cloud... has weird region restrictions for their arm offering but it exists??

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Re:PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances by nicoburns on Saturday January 23, 2021 @06:23AM (#25881492)
Most software isn't cpu-architecture specific though. Switching from ARM on AWS to x86 on another providor is likely to be quite straightforward.
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Re:PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances by MaxBarraclough on Sunday January 24, 2021 @11:42AM (#25893380)
That's true. I'd even made the same point elsewhere :-P

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25881305

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