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Date:      Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:31:08 -0800
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Amazon AMIs
Message-ID:  <8a139c9c-b98b-4a54-1d7c-0ea1e3dc7a72@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <f002c020-1e63-c12f-456e-e20f8546a701@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <f002c020-1e63-c12f-456e-e20f8546a701@FreeBSD.org>

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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...

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid



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