Amazon AMIs

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Wed Feb 20 19:31:03 UTC 2019


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...

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Colin Percival
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