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A comment on Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers. Parent comment

Re:Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM typ... by ahartmetz on Saturday March 07, 2026 @10:18PM (#47294052)
"VCPUS" are a bit of scam in my experience. You usually don't get what the hardware (according to /proc/cpuinfo) is capable of.
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Re:Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM typ... by tryauuum on Sunday March 08, 2026 @06:17AM (#47296082)
Just want to say something in defence of cloud providers

- sometimes you need to limit the list of available CPU features to allow live migration between different hypervisors

- even if you migrate the virtual machine to the latest state of the art CPU, /proc/cpuinfo won't reflect it (linux would go crazy if you tried to switch the CPU information on the fly) (the frequency boost would be measurable though, just not via /proc/cpuinfo )

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