Agreed. Google Cloud seems to do a better job of this, you can simply pick how many CPUs your VM will have. For me personally, it's the jump from c5d.4xlarge (

Agreed. Google Cloud seems to do a better job of this, you can simply pick how many CPUs your VM will have. For me personally, it's the jump from c5d.4xlarge (16 core) to c5d.9xlarge (36 core) that's a bit hard to work around, but there are surely others.