@kodestar I don't know where you're looking, but I'm seeing some servers for 30c/hour with 256GB RAM, for instance. If I can provision that with Terraform that's game-changing. (Similar VMs on AWS are 4x that price.)

@jpetazzo If all you need is RAM, then sure, but those servers are running on 10 year old CPUs, it gets a CPUbenchmark score of 5267 (my laptop benches higher than that), if you are incredibly generous and double that as there are 2 of them, then that still doesn't compare to the 18,000+ of the Ryzen 5 PRO 3600, except that offer has next to no RAM and no SSD. I guess if you want a 3600 with a decent amount of RAM (64GB) and decent storage (2 x 512GB NVME), then you could always go with Hetzner for 10 euros more, but I want to stick with Scaleway and was hoping there would be something exciting to replace the server they are sunsetting this year.

@jpetazzo @kodestar Thanks Chris. It's only the beginning of the year, we only just got started here! The feat today is really the underlying engineering that allows to blend the two types of computing ressources on the same IP network (including with Private Network). We'll keep on adding HW configs as we have done in the past 2 decades -- nothing new on that front. We truly believe that Elastic Metal within the context of Scaleway Elements is game changing when you blend dedicated ressources with elastic computing, fixed price with elastic pricing, all with the same ease of provisioning, deployment, orchestration... Elastic Metal is not just metal... it's the elastic that makes it worthwhile. This product isn't for everybody "yet" -- people need to wrap their head around what it really means (hello finops!). Thanks Jerôme for your vote of confidence :)

@jpetazzo @ylechelle Fair enough, I'll keep an eye on it then I guess, hopefully there will be some exciting configs available before my current dedibox gets turned off :)

@kodestar does Hetzner have hourly pricing on bare metal, though? The whole point of this is to run elastic loads. Traditionally with dedicated servers, we provision to fit max load. E.g. if you need 20 frontends for xmas/black friday, you get 20 servers. With on-demand machines, if I need 5 servers during the week, 2 during night+week-ends, and 20 during exceptional peak time, I only pay for what I use, so my final price isn't 20x but more like 3-4x. Of course it's not for everyone, as it requires to leverage infrastructure-as-code, config management, etc., so for a good old LAMP stack it may not be worth it. I think this offer is specifically targeted for folks who use the cloud platform (Scaleway Elements) but want BMAAS. I don't think it wants to replace the traditional dedicated offering of Scaleway (but I'm not their strategist :))

@crapougnax Hello! Indeed, you can use the servers as nodes with our managed Kubernetes service Kosmos - https://www.scaleway.com/en/kube...