I've noticed that AWS offers "baremetal" EC2 servers equipped with a Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) CPU, which was released back in 2014. I'm curious if this information is still accurate or if Amazon actually continues to provide hardware from that era, like the 512GB RAM and 15TB NVMe storage that comes with it. Are they really sticking with these older CPUs?
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AWS does keep some older machines like the i3 around for predictable performance. If you really need a specific CPU family like the Broadwell, they're still available, but there are definitely newer ones out there.
Yep, they still maintain some older hardware. The i3 you mentioned is indeed from 2017. But don’t worry, there are storage-optimized options like the c7i.metal that come with 4th Gen Scalable processors if you want something more up-to-date!
Just to clarify, while they maintain i3 instances with older CPUs, they also have the AWS Nitro system which supports running newer hardware even for legacy instances. It's interesting how they adapt to keep things running smoothly.
You're looking at an older instance type with the i3 metal. They do have newer options like the m7i.metal that run on more recent hardware. Just make sure you check the instance type before provisioning.
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