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by frenchtoast8 487 days ago
For example, AWS's Mac machines frequently run into hardware failures. My current job runs a measly 5 mac1.metal hosts for internal testing, and we experience hardware failures on these machines a few times a year. Doesn't sound like a lot, but these machines are almost always completely idle, and we almost never get host failures for Linux hosts. To make matters worse, sometimes a brand new instance needs replacement before it even comes up for the first time, which is annoying because you are billed a minimum of 24 hours for these instances. People have been complaining about this for years and seemingly nothing is being done about it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/131v8md/beware_of_brok...