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dtflast Wednesday at 11:31 AM2 repliesview on HN

Good question! I read two different Amazon press releases on this but still had to come here for the answer. It seems strange they don't want to advertise the ISA of a compute product - does marketing think it might scare people away?


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fweimerlast Wednesday at 11:48 AM

It seems they don't document the ISA for any instance types. This could be deliberate (and unrelated to marketing) in case they decide to pull features from the instance types in a microcode update. Without any ISA specifics, previous customer commitments towards instance types would still apply.

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zokierlast Wednesday at 12:00 PM

At this point I think they just assume that everyone who cares already know that graviton=arm