Core concept

1 OCPU = 1 physical core (2 hyperthreads). Different from AWS vCPU which is 1 thread.

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How it works

Ampere A1 is ARM. Some workloads need porting. Cheap + performant.

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Trade-offs + gotchas

E5 for general Linux workloads. A1 for cost-sensitive ARM-compatible. X9 for Windows/enterprise.