Azure used to sell physical cores but AWS was selling Hyper-threaded cores. This made a big difference on pricing and performance of certain workloads like Orac

Azure used to sell physical cores but AWS was selling Hyper-threaded cores. This made a big difference on pricing and performance of certain workloads like Oracle. These days, everything seems to be sold under the term vCPU which is an abstraction to represent the performance you can expect and is roughly similar to a hyper-threaded core. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-the-new-dv3-and-ev3-vm-sizes/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-the-new-d...