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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Pricing update

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GarimaSingh
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Apr 01, 2024
  As announced, Red Hat is updating its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) royalty model to a scalable model to achieve better consistency with the most common model for cloud virtual machines. These ...
Updated Apr 08, 2024
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jjeziorny
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Apr 04, 2024

I have a question on this, does the vCPU count accounts for constrained sizes?

That is, if I have a Standard_E32-8s_v5 for example, does it calculate as 32 or 8 vCores

 

Also just to mention, the following statement is not entirely correct:

These price changes will mostly lead to a price decrease for workloads with 12vCPUs or less

 

This only applies for the first 3 listed Offers, not for RHEL with HA where any VM with 4 or more vCPUs is going to be more expensive.