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Hi, what actually are _metal_ instances that are being used when you're on EC2 that have local NVME attached? Last time I looked, apart from the smallest/slowest Graviton, you have to spend circa 2.3k USD/mo to get a bare-metal instance from AWS - https://blog.alexellis.io/how-to-run-firecracker-without-kvm...

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Hi there, PS employee here. In AWS, the instance types backing our Metal class are currently in the following families: r6id, i4i, i3en and i7ie. We're deploying across multiple clouds, and our "Metal" product designation has no direct link to Amazon's bare-metal offerings.

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