Head‑to‑head of the two leading general‑purpose compute‑optimized instances for AI‑augmented services.
Updated October 22, 2026
Amazon EC2 M7i (Intel Xeon 4 GHz)
Google Cloud C3‑V5 (AMD Zen 4)
Google’s C3‑V5 wins the value battle with a superior price‑performance mix and seamless TPU off‑load, but AWS’s M7i still holds the crown for raw single‑core speed and ecosystem breadth.
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