If you want to rent AMD Epyc bare-metal boxes in the cloud, Oracle hopes you see red

Oracle today insisted it is the first public cloud vendor to offer bare-metal servers powered by AMD’s Epyc processors. We're told an Epyc-based bare-metal Standard E2 server can be rented at $0.03 per core per hour, and is available immediately. Oracle claimed this was up to 66 per cent cheaper, on average, per core than …

[Shadow Systems]

I wish I had $3K to spare...

"Yeah, hi. $0.03 per core per hour? Here's $3K. I want 100K cores for the next hour. I want them to play Zork & find that damned amulet!"

*Cough*

I should probably get a life. =-)p

[bazza]

Re: I wish I had $3K to spare...

Well, there are worse things to do with 3 grand....

I'm quite impressed with AMD of late. Good architecture, well executed, keenly priced. Good processor performance too. It may or may not be luck or judgement that meant they avoided the worst of Meltdown / Spectre, but avoid the worst they did (Meltdown made Intel look silly). They're on my shopping list.

[Anonymous Coward]

Oracle? Cheaper?

It isn't April already is it?

Where do they sting you if it isn't on could time then?

Still...looks like good real world publicity for AMD...

[Fenton]

Want to run Oracle on the server? That will be 64cores if licenses please. Plus the $0.03 per core per hour.