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Awesome! Thanks, really appreciate it :)

Sure, curious to see your findings!

:D I'll make a post and hit you up when I have something. As someone adviced me here, it would be important for the comparison to consider if the on-premises example does live kernel patching. Could you share me this info please?

Who said that? I would ignore them. Live patching just means that your OS updates while it's still running. To answer the question: Raspbian doesn't do that out-of-the-box, you have to restart it after an update (I haven't updated or even restarted the Pi in several months).

Ubuntu and a lot of Linux has the option if you use Ubuntu Pro, but I update my OS so rarely it's a non-issue. I wouldn't even consider that when comparing on-prem vs cloud.

My hunch (and as someone who uses both daily) is that on-prem is 2-10x faster than affordable cloud options within a region, but in some cases like international traffic or high-end multi-core computing etc. cloud should pull away from on-prem - but curious to see what you find :D

I see, someone commented it on this post. His argument is that most hardware issues are detected in power-on-self-test, and live kernel patching stops this. To be completely honest, I'm too unexperienced to know if it's pointless to consider this or not. Your point does make sense to me, if you only update the OS after several months, then it can't be a crucial thing for the comparison.

Really interesting that you have found on-prem 2x10x faster within a region, thanks for that info. I'll let you know how things go with the experiment, cheers :D

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