Amazon AMIs

[Alex Dupre]

Colin Percival wrote:
> On 2/20/19 3:00 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> Question:  Why is m4.large the recommended instance type?  Surely we'd be
>> better served and present users with a better experience by recommending an m5
>> instance as one of the more modern and higher performance types?
> 
> Last time I looked at this, we weren't handling hotplug/hotunplug of "NVMe"
> disks properly on the m5/c5/etc. instances.  I opted to recommend the instance
> which completely works rather than the one with slightly better performance...

It does happen only on a few instances, but I get some freezes on new t3
machines: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235856

They are indeed cheaper and more performant, but not 100% reliable in
every workload.

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Alex Dupre