forty cents buys you about 10 minutes of on-demand compute on a 96-core c5 instance This is incorrect. 48 cores, 96 threads. vCPUs mostly refer to threads, no

forty cents buys you about 10 minutes of on-demand compute on a 96-core c5 instance This is incorrect. 48 cores, 96 threads. vCPUs mostly refer to threads, not cores. There are some exceptions. More here... https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance-optimize-cpu.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance... ...and here (which is inexplicably missing the c5.24xlarge): https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/physicalcores/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/physicalcores/