Agreed. Just taking a look at their hardware: "Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5-2670 2.60GHz based systems (up to 32 vCPUs!)" That's clearly the v1 (Sandy Bridge) E5 2670 t

Agreed. Just taking a look at their hardware: "Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5-2670 2.60GHz based systems (up to 32 vCPUs!)" That's clearly the v1 (Sandy Bridge) E5 2670 that came out in March 2012, with 8 cores per CPU, 16 cores per machine, and 32 logical threads. The v2 (Ivy Bridge) E5 2670v2 came out back in September with 10x 2.5GHz cores per CPU, or 20 cores per machine, and 40 logical threads. As well as having slightly improved performance/clock due to the new architecture. Not that it should really matter; once you get up to the prices of the Performance 1 4GB or 8GB, bare metal makes more sense. An E3 1240v3 has 74% the performance of an E5 2670v1, and would obviously run circles around a 12.5% or 25% share of the E5, without even taking the I/O hit of running virtualization into account.