It's so rare to see cloud benchmarks! I'm surprised this guy hasn't had a scary takedown letter from some lawyers yet...
"There. I've said it. These [Xeon] processors are slow. Dog slow, in fact."
My gimmick recently has been to upgrade Intel CPU VMs to AMD VMs. One benefit of the cloud is that this is literally just a menu selection. If it was on-prem, it would be a one-month argument to convince people that it's risk free, then a one-month argument with some beancounter, then a month of waiting while the pallets of kit ship in from Asia, then another two months of rack mounting and prepping for production.
"They let them pack lots of slow cores onto a single CPU die, put that into a server, and then sell twice that number of cores as "vCPUs" to us."
Azure also charges for licenses on a per vCPU basis as if* they were physical CPUs! This means that in effect they've doubled their Windows and SQL revenue stream.
"There. I've said it. These [Xeon] processors are slow. Dog slow, in fact."
My gimmick recently has been to upgrade Intel CPU VMs to AMD VMs. One benefit of the cloud is that this is literally just a menu selection. If it was on-prem, it would be a one-month argument to convince people that it's risk free, then a one-month argument with some beancounter, then a month of waiting while the pallets of kit ship in from Asia, then another two months of rack mounting and prepping for production.
"They let them pack lots of slow cores onto a single CPU die, put that into a server, and then sell twice that number of cores as "vCPUs" to us."
Azure also charges for licenses on a per vCPU basis as if* they were physical CPUs! This means that in effect they've doubled their Windows and SQL revenue stream.