Preserves pre-2017 servers on its newer Nitro hardware
"The AWS Nitro System support for previous generation of general-purpose, compute optimized, storage optimized, and memory optimized instances allows our customers to focus on creating value-add services for their core business instead of rebuilding their workloads on newer instances," the announcement states.
"Customers of previous generation instances will experience a seamless transition to AWS Nitro System with the instance characteristics, feature sets, and workflows remaining the same," the post promises – about as simple a legacy migration path as can be imagined. Simpler, at least, than rebuilding everything on one of the competing cloud providers – which must be a part of AWS's motivation. Never underestimate the value of customer inertia.
The post goes on that AWS will offer this migration for the"first wave of previous generation instances" – namely the M3, M2, and M1 types, which will be sorted in 2022.All of which will mean AWS customers will be spared migrations, and may even end up running on hardware that is newer and more powerful than the kit that powered their instances when they were first switched on.
Cloudy servers may relieve users of the need to care for hardware, but applications designed to run on servers always have some degree of coupling to the underlying hardware. AWS's extension of old EC2 instance types is therefore acknowledgement that clouds are not immune from the forces that create legacy systems. ®
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