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Is it cheaper for the end user? If not, what's the point of using ARM over x86 besides ideological reasons?


Yes, that's why they offer them and have done numerous comparisons showing this as a cost-savings move?


I don't know that's why I'm asking.

Every comparison I've seen was cost saving for the datacenter.


Do you mean end user as someone other than the buyer of a cloud service? That’s the context I was writing in - I’ve generally found things like https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/10/achieve-u... to be accurate as long as you’re not radically switching instance types.




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