EUC 14 min read

The Cloud Desktop CPU Lottery, AMD Edition: Which Zen Are You Actually Running On?

After the Intel-side breakdown, the obvious follow-up was: does the same lottery exist on the AMD SKUs? Short answer — yes, but it plays out very differently. A pragmatic walk through Azure Das/Eas, AWS T3a/M5a/M6a/M7a/M8a, and GCP N2D/T2D/C3D, with mitigation that actually works.

Read featured article

EUC 17 min read

The Cloud Desktop CPU Lottery: What Are You Actually Running On?

Update October 2026: I corrected the Dedicated Host densities and the OBUX table against Microsoft's packing tables and GO-EUC's measurements, reran the…

Read featured article

Latest posts

View all

Citrix • 9 min read

Citrix MCSIO on Nutanix AHV: A Solution to a Problem That Doesn’t Exist

EUC • 8 min read

Your Cloud Desktop Is Running on Yesterday’s Silicon

Nutanix • 6 min read

When the Orchard Ships Production Software: AI-Augmented Development in the Real World

Nutanix • 92 min read

Nutanix Documentation Script v5.0: Visual Reports, Brand Templates, and Seven Embedded Diagrams

CVAD • 4 min read

Nutanix AHV and Citrix MCS: Adding a persistent disk via Powershell – v2

Start Here

Start Here Citrix Start Here Architecture, operations, and troubleshooting. Start Here Nutanix Start Here Core guides for AHV and day-2 operations. Start Here PowerShell Start Here Automation patterns and reusable scripts. Start Here VMware Start Here vSphere performance and operational hygiene.