An arbitrary vCPU is my way of pointing out that most cloud providers today would call a 10-year old Intel core a "vCPU" and would also call a brand-new CPU a "

An arbitrary vCPU is my way of pointing out that most cloud providers today would call a 10-year old Intel core a "vCPU" and would also call a brand-new CPU a "vCPU" (more likely the former than the latter). We feel that you should be charged less for older/slower hardware, and more for newer/faster hardware, so we scaled our pricing accordingly. And regarding egress, because we're fully vertically integrated (we own everything aside from our ISP) nobody else charges us egress and therefore we don't charge our customers egress.