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Comment by gzread

2 days ago

ARM almost made inroads on servers, then everyone switched back to x64. What happened?

I regularly use Graviton CPUs on AWS (even if Amazon pays the cheaper ARM license), why would people switch back from that? It's effectively better in terms of performance/price, I expect these improvements to slowly but steadily reach the on-premises world as well.

  • Yeah, but everything on AWS is already way more expensive than it should be, so the slight discount on ARM instances is a gimmick from Amazon to diversify their servers or something. Actual ARM servers aren't cheaper or better.