BTW, notice I never said Andrei's estimate is wrong, just that I don't agree with the way he got there and it's most likely at the upper end of his estimated range (and maybe a little higher) even though he says that his upper end is pessimistic.
I would not look so much into this. I would preferred if this article could be more like, hey there are some new offerings in the market to try out if you have a service to run in the cloud.
I am sure you are not stupid if you decide against it.
I mean if you are a serious cloud service operator
- You dont pay the amount quoted in this article for hosting your services
- You dont need a SPEC benchmark from somewhere to decide your make/buy decisions. You can get a free Premium subscription to try out your services on the new instances. Each service is unique. It it is not like there is a bunch of apps (like game benchmarking, if you will) and then everyone runs the same thing. Every service has its own unique code base, unique framework, unique dataset, unique programming language, unique problems it is solving. These guys literally pester you to try out their stuff. They will be more than happy to let you try out for free.
- If you rely your make/buy decision on this what will the hundreds (if not thousands) of guys in your department do?? It is their day and night job to ensure zero downtime, 24/7.
- Can you deploy this in all Geos. What if your services in West-EU, East/West-US and so on, run on this and then you have a different platform running in China on Alibaba/Tencent Infra where AWS cannot operate??
- If you operate on this HW you need to be sure what is the roadmap, are you going to be able to scale your workload in the future? Or do you have to take down the service offline every time there is infra upgrade.
We dont need to keep adding things here but if you are working in IT/Cloud/Edge you probably have your own laundry list of things to go through before you can even consider this.
Same like how AMD thought they could just take market share from Intel but then reality sets in, that is considering even a cold migration is possible and your code could more or less be compatible.