Just a friendly reminder that AWS pricing is still insanely high compared to dedicated bare metal servers. On AWS you'd pay around $1500/mo for 24 cores ("m5a.12xlarge")[1] while e.g. Hetzner offers a 24 core AMD bare metal server for $190/mo[2].<p>Also consider that on AWS you pay for traffic on top of that; prices for which is even more insane. 100TB, while free with Hetzner, would cost you somewhere around $9000 on AWS.<p>[1] <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.hetzner.de/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax" rel="nofollow">https://www.hetzner.de/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax</a>
The pricing seems to be around 10% cheaper than the equivalent Intel based servers (m5a.4xlarge $0.688 per Hour vs m5.4xlarge $0.768 per Hour, similar for other instance sizes). I was expecting AMD servers to be somewhat cheaper, but given that the server CPU is only one of many components I guess the savings can't be that much more.
Would be interesting to see how the actual performance per $ is different.<p>Exciting to have AMD on AWS though. Still far more expensive than rolling your own hardware or getting bare metal servers.
> custom AMD EPYC processors<p>I wonder, how much effort does that entail? Is this some TDP and firmware tweaks, or is it actually different silicon? If the later, that sounds like a reasonably big bet that there will be a lot of AMD chips sold to AWS.
"AMD Next Horizon Live Blog" ( about ZEN2 ) :
<a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/13547/amd-next-horizon-live-blog-starts-9am-pt-5pm-utc" rel="nofollow">https://www.anandtech.com/show/13547/amd-next-horizon-live-b...</a>
Offtopic, but does anyone have the stock data / second of AMD on minute 13 till minute 17.<p>I only see the press-release at minute 15:00 everywhere * and in minute 15 the stock also rose 6-7%. I'm curious on "how fast" the algorithms work and/or if early press releases are possible to a private club :)<p>* One minor exception, this one is published on minute 14, but is propably another issue on the website itselve ( <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/aws-introduces-new-amazon-ec2-instances-featuring-amd-epyc-processors-2018-11-06" rel="nofollow">https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/aws-introduces-new...</a> )
Very strange that none of these processors are rated with ECUs in the pricing table. Is AWS still working on bench marking these or is this an extension of whatever agreement AWS/AMD has reached?
Now,<p>Step 0: Amazon adds AMD server which are cheaper then equivalent intel ones.<p>Step 1: People prefer these <i>cheaper</i> instance.<p>Step 2: Amazon AI notices the demand for AMD, goes back to Step 0.<p>Repeat.