[stephenbez]

> If you do what AWS does and create some artificial "compute units" as a sort of fungible measure of processing power, what you'll find is that the sweet spot for price per compute unit is a medium power system.

At least when I look here the costs are linear.

E.g. c5.2xlarge is double a c5.xlarge, and a c5.24xlarge is 24 times higher than a c5.xlarge.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

[orclev]

That's interesting, it didn't used to be linear, particularly on the very large instances. Oddly when looking at the prices for RHEL those are much closer to what all the prices used to look like (I hadn't actually looked at AWS pricing in a few years). I wonder if AWSes virtualization tech has just reached the point now where all processing is effectively fungible and it's all really just executing on clusters of mid-range CPUs no matter how large your virtual server is.