Well yeah. Except you can't ask for a given type of hardware, you can only ask for a certain instance type, right? Basically the picloud model is you do a "clo

Well yeah. Except you can't ask for a given type of hardware, you can only ask for a certain instance type, right? Basically the picloud model is you do a "cloud" call, and that runs on some instance (usually shared, picture a single instance doing some number of picloud calls in parallel) at some point in the future. The sticking point for them was that the same instance type was backed not only by different CPUs, but by some subset of instances whose CPU capability advertising was broken. It does actually break "instance type equivalence" for people running real code. I think Amazon will fix it though.