[chesiffon]

I use Oracle for certain workloads because their ARM compute offering is very flexible and cost effective. They let you select CPU count and memory semi-separately, without charging a huge premium for it. You can have 64 CPUs and 64 GB RAM (max CPU, min RAM) or 1 CPU and 64 GB RAM (min CPU, max RAM). I say "semi-separately" because they don't allow less than 1 GB RAM or more than 64 GB per CPU. For the workloads I'm talking about, they need a lot of RAM compared to CPUs. So Oracle's offering is very attractive for it. I've also found that the CPUs significantly outperform even "high performance" dedicated Intel CPUs at other providers for one of my compute heavy workloads (I still don't understand how that could be the case, but I'll take it). It only underperforms my desktop i7-11700k by about 25%.