I mean it was pretty competitive almost two years ago, but AMD made a huge leap since then. Not sure why saying a two year old CPU is outdated is a controversial take.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-grav...
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-grav...
> In terms of value, the Graviton2 seemingly ends up with top grades and puts the competition to shame
Also, two years it's not very old in the cloud space. Takes time to ramp up a new instance type
Looking at things in terms of dollars / hour for your app tends to soften out the outdated impact unless you have a very compute-heavy workload.