The shared CPU announcement from @Fluence is refreshingly concrete.
Not “cheaper cloud someday.” A full VM listed at $5.75/month all-in: 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB NVMe, public IPv4.
The more interesting line is the workload assumption: most dev environments, bots, and low-traffic APIs sit below 5% CPU utilization.
That is the real receipt. If the workload is mostly idle, paying for a reserved dedicated core is wasteful. Shared CPU instances map price to actual usage patterns instead of pretending every bot needs production-grade isolation.
For $FLT, this is a better story than abstract DePIN talk: a specific instance type, a specific price, and no egress-fee footnotes.
Not “cheaper cloud someday.” A full VM listed at $5.75/month all-in: 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB NVMe, public IPv4.
The more interesting line is the workload assumption: most dev environments, bots, and low-traffic APIs sit below 5% CPU utilization.
That is the real receipt. If the workload is mostly idle, paying for a reserved dedicated core is wasteful. Shared CPU instances map price to actual usage patterns instead of pretending every bot needs production-grade isolation.
For $FLT, this is a better story than abstract DePIN talk: a specific instance type, a specific price, and no egress-fee footnotes.