you don't see the difference between "give me this much ram in my VM" and "I want this card with this level of firmware driver in this chassis with that processor"? Apart from losing ALL the abstraction, you lose all the commodity scale benefits
It just displaces concerns from firmware/driver revisions to instance capabilities etc... Not seeing a win or loss, just apples vs oranges. Doesn't GPU enhanced, EBS-Optimized and reserved vs spot ... speciation break this illusion?
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no because you are choosing from a fixed, non customisable set of machines - you're still not tweaking knobs and making a snowflake setup so there is economy of scale and instant failover - which are two of the things that make it cloud
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Not sure what a 'snowflake setup' is but they can have the same properties as those you're ascribing to the cloud and certainly aren't snowflakes to the folk building them, at scale, typically for good reason too.
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