Comments on: AWS Pushes Bang For The Buck With Graviton 4 Instances

By: Wijnand Klok

Wijnand Klok — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:07:25 +0000

In reply to Timothy Prickett Morgan. All the best, Timothy. We appreciate your contributions and TheNextPlatform as a whole!

By: Carl Schumacher

Carl Schumacher — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:20:34 +0000

In reply to Timothy Prickett Morgan. Hopefully, like this article, they will only get better!

By: Timothy Prickett Morgan

Timothy Prickett Morgan — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 17:00:33 +0000

In reply to Wijnand Klok. Thanks for that. This is what happens when your wife, your mom, and your best friend's mom are all ill, with various levels of criticality, at the same time. Every interrupt stops an error correction and detection mechanism. . . .

By: Wijnand Klok

Wijnand Klok — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 09:04:53 +0000

It looks like there is an error in the table that compare Graviton 4 R8g instances to prior flavors of Graviton 2 and Graviton 3. It is suggested that the best price/performance instance types are the T4g and C6g. The calculation of T4g.2xlarge is taking the 64 vCPU ECU estimate( not the 1/8 portion) and price per year is a mystery as well. And the C6g.16xlarge takes the pricing calculate of T4g.2xlarge and gives the same price per ECU.

By: Brainknee

Brainknee — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 02:21:37 +0000

Looks like your story URL still carries an older headline – although you have changed the headline and content of the story.
https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/09/aws-charges-a-hefty-premium-for-graviton-4-instances/

By: Eric Olson

Eric Olson — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 02:01:42 +0000

In reply to perfmon. Thank you for updating the article in such an honest way. The tone of the article has changed and that's for the better. The world needs as much good news as possible!

By: perfmon

perfmon — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 18:00:34 +0000

I calculated price per ECU differently.
The r7.16xl has 64 vCPU. the r8.16xl has 64 vCPU. The cost of the r8.16xl is ~10% more than the r7.16xl. Performance is 30% better. price/performance of r8 is better than r7.
If you compare biggest instance to biggest instance, you have to take into account the 50% core count increase, which seems to then make the r8 instance better price/performance than r7.
AWS doesn’t seem to be milking its position like IBM/Sun did.