Fantastic, we've already begun switching RDS instances to Arm64 (simple, easy, and effective), but still haven't cracked (yet) building for Arm64 compute containers in a safe and effective way. I love it!
The long history and dominant ecosystem on x86 makes containerization more seamless today. ARM64 support is evolving quickly but still has maturity gaps that can make safe and efficient container deployment more challenging. Careful testing and validation is required.
Exactly right but also in our case, we support single and multi-tenant first/second, and even third party support. That is, we need to support any workload from any customer or customer's customer at any moment now or in the future. We can easily say "if you have an x86 cluster, we guarantee 100% compatibility." But if we switch to ARM, we'd have to make exceptions and do double the testing on any existing workloads, as well as all the complications with building twice and doing releases and notes for each arch... It really does spin out of control quickly.