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It's little brother is the prod inference cluster. It's had an uptime of 100% over the last two years.

People seriously don't realize just how _big_ computers have gotten. The AWS mentality is still stuck in 2005 when a t2.micro was a decent computer.

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> The AWS mentality is still stuck in 2005 when a t2.micro was a decent computer.

The T2 EC2 instance family got announced in 2014: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/startups/announcing-amazon-ec2-...

The first instance was the m1.small it's specs are marginally better than those of t2.micro, it's not been generally available since 2022 if memory serves.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-instance-history/

https://instances.vantage.sh/aws/ec2/t2.micro

https://instances.vantage.sh/aws/ec2/m1.small

Please nitpick better. Nothing is more embarrassing then being pedantic and wrong.

And t2.micro was not a decent computer at that time.

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