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AWS m6i : The why you should abandon your m5

Around 2 years after the last m5 and m5a, AWS renewed its Intel series with m6i. In short and avoiding to repeat their announce, they offer better CPU performance, a larger network bandwidth and for the same price than the m5 series. Yes, this is just a provider's annoucement, so…
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Amazon Web Services : M5 vs M5a vs M6g

In other words Intel vs AMD vs ARM. AWS recently released Graviton series for all their main instance types: R6g with extended memory, C6g for compute optimized and M6g for general purpose. Their offering has always been based on Intel but in the past years we saw AMD and now…
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New C5a benchmark: Performance/Price

AWS recently released the new series C5a equipped with custom AMD EPYC 7R32. We can discover here, a less expensive alternative to C5, similar to what they did with M5, R5 and T3. But cost isn't an appropriated metric if you doesn't take in account performance, so let's dive into…
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AWS and the volume equation

Despite being one of the the worldwide most used block storage solution, Amazon's General Purpose SSD is far away from being a general and versatile solution. Unlike other providers selling volumes based on device type and an hourly price per gigabytes, AWS made the choice to create products adapted to…
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