Damus
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) · 2w
One of the most interesting things I learned at Microsoft: demand for cloud is not driven by performance. The most popular SKUs are cheap older-generation things because we’ve already reached the po...
Josh Simmons profile picture
@nprofile1q... it's hard also just due to logistics. like the core foundation of the cloud is this idea of commodity compute, but that means in order to actually use a new sku it needs to roll out globally, or near to it. larger, more powerful individual instances would be super useful to some workloads, but cloud providers can't/don't want to give you those kinds of hardware allocations, and if they do it's regionally dependent anyway which makes it worthless.