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Re:AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in com... by paulsutter on Saturday August 20, 2022 @09:37AM (#32531972)
Amazon has millions of idle cpus available 24 hours a day (they can use all the idle time for all customer instances for whatever they want)
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Re:AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in com... by eru on Saturday August 20, 2022 @11:32AM (#32532771)
That doesn't make it completely free. They still have opportunity costs.
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Re:AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in com... by seabrookmx on Saturday August 20, 2022 @09:10PM (#32536546)
Idle CPU's also use less power than ones running full tilt.
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