> Not to mention that you're getting 2010s-era performance on those VMs, so subdividing them is terrible from a performance point of view too.
I was trying in vain to explain to our infra team a couple of weeks ago why giving my team a dedicated node of a newer instance family with DDR5 RAM would be beneficial for an application which is heavily constrained by RAM speed. People seem to assume that compute is homogenous.
I would wager that the same kind of people that were arguing against your request for a specific hardware config are the same ones in this comment section railing against any sort of self-sufficiency by hosting it yourself on hardware. All they know is cloud, all they know how to do is "ScAlE Up thE InStanCE!" when shit hits the fan. It's difficult to argue against that and make real progress. I understand your frustration completely.
I was trying in vain to explain to our infra team a couple of weeks ago why giving my team a dedicated node of a newer instance family with DDR5 RAM would be beneficial for an application which is heavily constrained by RAM speed. People seem to assume that compute is homogenous.