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Author: Brian Beach
Brian Beach has over 20 years of experience as a Developer and Architect. He is currently a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. He holds a Computer Engineering degree from NYU Poly and an MBA from Rutgers Business School. He is the author of “Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services” from Apress. He is a regular author and has spoken at numerous events. Brian lives in North Carolina with his wife and three kids.
Disabling Intel Hyper-Threading Technology on Amazon EC2 Windows Instances
NOTE: In May of 2018, AWS announced Optimize CPUs for Amazon EC2 Instances. This feature allows customers to disable Hyper-Threading for workloads that perform well with single-threaded CPUs, like certain high-performance computing (HPC) applications. You can read more in the EC2 User Guide. In a prior post, Disabling Intel Hyper-Threading on Amazon Linux, I investigated how […]