That’s also a deliberate thing - cloud providers have consciously avoided increasing the per-unit performance of a vcpu, you still get the same Sandy Bridge per

That’s also a deliberate thing - cloud providers have consciously avoided increasing the per-unit performance of a vcpu, you still get the same Sandy Bridge performance in 2024 as you did in 2012. They actually go all the way to the extent of having AMD design them smaller, higher-density “cloud” cores that don’t clock as high, to avoid ever increasing that vcpu unit.