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AWS is bigger in general access Cloud, but could Google be bigger in terms of raw CPU numbers to power all of its internal services?

The optimization Amazon wanted (and got) was related to CPU cores, not early next-gen chips. I always assumed it was a way to sell more "dedicated cores" per socket. It might be exclusive, but Google, Facebook and enterprises would not be interested unless the overall chip was more powerful.

>"Intel wouldn't risk to annoy AWS, they are a far bigger customer than Google."

Do you have a citation or something showing such numbers? What is this statement based on?