If you’ve been in Azure or Amazon for a few years, you’re probably on old, slow hardware.
In the last 3 weeks, I’ve had two clients who’d both been early cloud adopters. When they’d migrated to the cloud, they both used Azure Ev3 VMs – at the time, a good choice for SQL Server due to its relatively high amount of memory. When the Ev3 VM types were announced in 2017, they were hosted on Intel Broadwell and Haswell processors with 2.3-2.4GHz processing speed.
Since 2021, though, Azure’s newer Ev5 VMs are hosted on Intel Ice Lake processors that run