Re:EC2 Update – X1e Instances in Five More Sizes and a Stron...
by baronvonsp on Sunday November 19, 2017 @05:47PM
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While fewer workloads today are CPU-bound in general, these will probably be an especially big win for commercial software use cases in particular. Customers running workloads with processor-based licensing (think databases) now have more options for increasing available RAM without taking on more CPU licenses.
(disclosure, I work for AWS)