They're the cheapest EC2 instance type, so they're very attractive to small scale deployments like side projects, personal sites etc. (basically anything that can run on one or two small nodes) where budget is a major concern. The t4g.micro is in the free tier as well, so that'll help.
I host a few very low traffic sites & I'm in the process of switching from a basic DO Droplet to a pair of low-end Gravitons. Will save me money and give better peak performance for my workloads.
> switching from a basic DO Droplet to a pair of low-end Gravitons. Will save me money and give better peak performance for my workloads.
I'm having trouble figuring this out - a t4g.micro is $6/month, before any storage or data transfer costs. The roughly equivalent DO offering is $5/month, inclusive of 25GB SSD and 1TB transfer. Even with a reserve instance discount and significantly less than 1TB outbound transfer, DO seems likely to be cheaper.
Maybe, but it would take a _lot_ of people moving small deployments (where by definition the savings would be small especially relative to the fixed costs of getting to work on Arm) in a relatively short space of time to have this impact - so I'm sceptical (and if it is then it must be very easy to move to Arm - which I'm also sceptical of).
More likely some very big customers (peer comment mentions Twitter) moving to Graviton2 for cost savings.
Graviton might be the top and/or default choice in their management console when you create an EC2 instance. That would swing things pretty quickly for all the free tier folks.
Yes...edited my edit. I'm pretty sure there was no radio button for some time, you would have had to scroll into other choices to get a Graviton instance.
I host a few very low traffic sites & I'm in the process of switching from a basic DO Droplet to a pair of low-end Gravitons. Will save me money and give better peak performance for my workloads.