[Someone1234]

No currently offered M1 Mini has redundant fail-over power or storage. Also, without knowing how your cloud provider has cooling setup it is unclear how well it will operate under heavy load for extended periods of time (blade servers are designed for that specific workload and have cooling solutions to match).

My point is: If your workload is time critical, and you cannot afford downtime/outages then it may not be for you. If your workload can afford the time it would take to adopt a new M1 Mini when the old one dies, then maybe?

[jagger27]

> No currently offered M1 Mini has redundant fail-over power or storage.

It's kind of funny, but an M1 MacBook does. In fact it comes with a solid >12 hour UPS built-in.

[jb1991]

I assume you are just talking about the battery, which I suppose is sorta a built-in UPS though I've never heard it referred to as such!

[jtbayly]

I’ve explicitly considered laptop batteries as UPS’s before in designing certain systems.

[Someone1234]

So does a data center. Neither one has a redundant PSU.

[jagger27]

A MacBook can actually have multiple power supplies plugged in at once and will use the more powerful one. I bet having two of the same wattage would work fine. It also works with the new MacBook Pros with MagSafe.

In fact, if you plug the type-C end of MagSafe cable into the MacBook, it will "charge" itself. USB-PD is pretty great.

It's too bad the Mac mini can't be powered over USB-C though.

[bpicolo]

Does that include the AWS launched M1 instances last week?

[Someone1234]

I don't know, Amazon's press releases don't talk very much about how the offering works under the hood.

[groundthrower]

Well, it waits for calculations which take about 2 seconds to complete on average - the vast majority of the time it’s idle

[gjsman-1000]

Could this maybe, someday, be simplified or implemented to a AWS Lambda function?

[groundthrower]

We have already tried that and use Lambdas as last point of backup if the other servers aren’t available- however the performance is about 1/50 compared to our current production server