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You can actually take most EC2 instances and specify the number of cores it has for this type of licensing issue: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/User

by kondro 8y ago

You can actually take most EC2 instances and specify the number of cores it has for this type of licensing issue: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance-optimize-cpu.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance...

wmf 8y ago
Note that this doesn't save any money because you're still paying for the disabled cores. IIRC GCE does not have that limitation.
- kondro 8y ago
  That's true, but given that 32 cores of something like Oracle is something like $800k, I'm not sure it's all that relevant.