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Re:Intel seems awfully scared of Graviton2. Why pay for this... by InvaderFizz on Monday December 13, 2021 @01:06AM (#29537145)
This right here is what I'm working on at my company right now. We're a multi-cloud and on-prem SaaS provider, we meet the customer where they want to be.

Our entire deployment stack is Java/Python on Linux.

I'm looking at our deployments and thinking, we sure would save a lot of money, and likely deliver a superior product if we switched to ARM on both AWS and OCI. Better product due to beefing up the Postgres clusters with part of the savings.

My hope is that by the end of Q2, our default deployment is on ARM on OCI. We're looking at nearly a 50% cost reduction versus the current m5 RDS and other EC2 instances.

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Re:Intel seems awfully scared of Graviton2. Why pay for this... by hinkley on Monday December 13, 2021 @02:36AM (#29537585)
Have you compared with the m6i they just introduced? I’m seeing about a 20% improvement in price/performance.
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Re:Intel seems awfully scared of Graviton2. Why pay for this... by InvaderFizz on Monday December 13, 2021 @03:02AM (#29537685)
I have not. I'll add that to my test matrix. I don't care who provides the compute(Intel/AMD/ARM). I care about QoL and QoS for customers, costs for delivery for us.

If switching to ARM means general parity on per core performance, I can easily sell rolling a portion of that savings into a bigger baseline config for all customers. Especially on Oracle, where their charges for RAM on A1 are peanuts.

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Re:Intel seems awfully scared of Graviton2. Why pay for this... by x0x0 on Monday December 13, 2021 @02:16PM (#29543209)
This sounds more and more like an existential threat to Intel.

I thought the industry's consensus was a key component of Intel's dominance is they leveraged the best fab tech in the world, made possible by huge volume. That's a virtuous cycle on the way up and terrible as volume decreases...

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