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Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by jiggawatts »

nixgeek wrote: post #2

Genoa was a big leap from Milan. Turin is a huge leap again. AMD really is doing spectacularly well at the moment. Kudos to Lisa Su and the team.

> Kudos to Lisa Su and the team.

They're a typical hardware maker unable to focus on software, which is why NVIDIA is now a multi-trillion dollar corporation and AMD is "just" a few hundred billion.

They've focused too much on CPUs and completely dropped the ball on AI and compute accelerators.

It's especially sad considering that the MI300 and related accelerators on paper are competitive with NVIDIA hardware, it's just that they have nowhere near the same software stack, so nobody cares.

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Post by rr808 »

Still having your own hardware seems so much cheaper. Maybe even just for dev/uat environments?

Every big corporate I have worked at has lower cost of capital than Amazon, and yet they want to move to AWS. I just dont understand it.

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Post by doener »

rr808 wrote: post #4

Still having your own hardware seems so much cheaper. Maybe even just for dev/uat environments? Every big corporate I have worked at has lower cost of capital than Amazon, and yet they want to move to AWS. I just dont understand it.

There are so many articles like these:

"We Moved from AWS to Hetzner. Cut Costs 89%. Here’s the Catch."

https://medium.com/lets-code-future/we-moved-from-aws-to-het...

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Post by p_ing »

rr808 wrote: post #4

Still having your own hardware seems so much cheaper. Maybe even just for dev/uat environments? Every big corporate I have worked at has lower cost of capital than Amazon, and yet they want to move to AWS. I just dont understand it.

You need to factor in the data center, power, cooling, hands-on support, future growth, etc.

You're never just paying for the hardware.

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Post by himata4113 »

I am still running ROME epyc cpus that I picked up for couple hundred and they're doing great. Power usage is not the best and singlethread is awful (-50%), but multithreaded performance kicks 9950x in the ass at around 90k vs 70k.

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Post by NERD_ALERT »

rr808 wrote: post #4

Still having your own hardware seems so much cheaper. Maybe even just for dev/uat environments? Every big corporate I have worked at has lower cost of capital than Amazon, and yet they want to move to AWS. I just dont understand it.

> I just don’t understand it

Maintaining and updating your own hardware comes with so much operational overhead compared to magically spinning up and down resources as needed. I don’t think this really needs to be said.

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Post by selectively »

doener wrote: post #6
rr808 wrote: post #4

Still having your own hardware seems so much cheaper. Maybe even just for dev/uat environments? Every big corporate I have worked at has lower cost of capital than Amazon, and yet they want to move to AWS. I just dont understand it.

There are so many articles like these: "We Moved from AWS to Hetzner. Cut Costs 89%. Here’s the Catch." https://medium.com/lets-code-future/we-moved-from-aws-to-het...

You just linked AI slop.
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