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I guess most companies could easily just run their code on x64 without porting necessary. How many clients would have ARM64-specific code running that absolutely would not run on x64? What Scaleway did is not ideal, but I think you are blowing it out of proportion.

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Not everyone has a "one click build" process.

The images run on the machines might be binaries licensed from vendors which are ARM. Have fun calling every vendor and saying "Yeah, I know you completed your contract with us 4 years ago, but would you mind recompiling the whole project as x64?".

How many people with generic non-ARM specific code would bother running it on an ARM instance?

I have arm instances for the sole reason that they are cheaper than x86 instances.

Well, they were pretty cheap so if you could live slower execution python/java worked fine as an example

I run my website on an AWS a1 instance, but I'm not many people :D

But really the answer is "enough people for Amazon to invest heavily in manufacturing custom CPUs"

It's highly unlikely to be a showstopper, but you have to actually install, configure and test the software on those new images.

Scaleway just decided that you're not shipping any code today, you're retooling your configuration.

I don't think it's that bad, but it's not something a platform you trust to run anything valuable on would ever do.

I agree, especially with the consideration that they gave us an 8 month notice to vacate currently allocated instances.

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