> The 6i instances are beating all amd and generally-available graviton instances in raw performance and performance-per-dollar on my workloads.

I can confirm that:

Build time of a Linux 5.13.11 kernel with `make defconfig all`

c6i.32xlarge: 24.871411s

m6a.48xlarge: 27.622526s

Build time of a Linux 5.13.11 kernel with `make allmodconfig all`

c6i.32xlarge: 183.775255s

m6a.48xlarge: 205.326048s

128-way Intel seems to consistently beat 196-way AMD for software builds.