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> What confuses me is that AMD still has a huge lead for server CPUs. I have not seen massive adoption of AMD in the cloud yet.

This was years ago so the tide may've shifted but: part of it could still be vendor experience and "it works"-experience?

When EPYC gen 1 & 2 came out, we were shopping for a bare metal megaserver spec at work. I got a budget and free rein (except it had to be Dell), and I really wanted to pick EPYC for the better core clocks (which were significant in our build architecture) and more cores and better cost.

With one EPYC spec and one Xeon Gold spec built (EPYC was I think $13k vs $15k?), work was a bit uneasy about AMD processors just yet. Our workload was MSVC compilation but they were concerned about architecture differences, since all of our workstations & laptops were Intels. They preferred paying more because "we already have Xeon servers and they're proven".

So, we ended up getting the Xeon Gold spec instead.