[DISCUSSION]: Separate Virtual Machines sub-category to delineate dedicated / bare metal services

[ahullah]

Description

Currently dedicated machines and bare metal machines are wrapped under the Virtual Machines sub category.... Should these live in their own sub category?

Proposed Approach

Create a new sub category for 'dedicated machines

GitHub Issue or Reference

No response

Context

How does this impact commitment calculation if not all machine types can be commited to?

Data Submission for Discussion

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[shawnalpay]

@ahullah How might we handle for a scenario when a given provider does not delineate between these?

For example, AWS groups dedicated and bare-metal together under a single EC2 service, whereas OCI delineates between Virtual Machines and Bare Metal Servers.

In that case, would it be acceptable that AWS Bare Metal Servers not show up in a net-new Service Subcategory called Bare Metal (or similar)? Or would you prefer to commingle all of these instances together under Virtual Machines, despite the relative inaccuracy? There is not a good answer here, I think -- but we opted to undercategorize in this case for 1.1, in order to reflect the reality of the provider services at hand.