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Re:ARM vs. Intel on Amazon’s Cloud: A URL Parsing Benchmark by guipsp on Thursday March 02, 2023 @05:07AM (#34994002)
Not sure what you're talking about - in aws x86 you pay by core (well as much as pay by core with arm anyways, you can't just buy a 1gb server with 64 cores)
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Re:ARM vs. Intel on Amazon’s Cloud: A URL Parsing Benchmark by mattashii on Thursday March 02, 2023 @06:45AM (#34994625)
AWS x64 'cores' are the virtual cores you see on hyperthreaded CPUs and map 2:1 to physical cores on the CPU, but the AWS ARM offering doesn't have hyperthreading, so the virtual cores map 1:1 to cpu cores.

You can disable hyperthreading on the x64 instances at the cost of halving the number of cores you have available in the instance that you paid for.

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Re:ARM vs. Intel on Amazon’s Cloud: A URL Parsing Benchmark by guipsp on Friday March 03, 2023 @03:55AM (#35007313)
Yes, but this doesn't really matter - just multiply the cost by two in your accounting. Its not like you one get one core with 15 hyperthread cores
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