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by mattashii 1202 days ago
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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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