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		dx034 on Dec 1, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Developer Preview – EC2 Instances with Programmabl... How would they do that? Since the FPGAs are not shared, I don't see how you could use it for very short-lived instances.

koolba on Dec 1, 2016 [–]

If the spin up time is fast enough then they could do it. Alternatively if it's active enough then there would a stream of requests processed by the same, already loaded, FPGA.

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