Amazon says it uses two Intel Xeon E5-2670 eight-core processors ... into memory, which should make this instance type perfect for this kind of usage. Because Amazon’s RDS offers support ...

As you might have heard, AWS recently released a new AWS EC2 instance type perfect ... many CPUs because it scales linearly with the number of cores thanks to our unique shard-per-core architecture.

announcing that they can create compute instances with custom configurations of virtual CPUs and memory on the company’s cloud platform. The company calls its new feature Custom Machine Types ...

AWS claims that these new instances can provide "up to 55% better price-performance per vCPU compared to X1e instances." Customer-facing deployments of the new product type will range from the x2iezn.