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A t3.micro has two vCPUs, where each vCPU is backed by a hyperthread of a physical core. Because the scheduler used by the Nitro Hypervisor core based scheduling (see [1]), the two vCPUs will always map to the two threads of a physical core. You will not run on two separate physical cores are the same time if you have only 2 vCPUs allocated to your T3 instance.

The scheduler can move where your vCPUs run based on available resources.

I can try to explain virtual machine CPU scheduling, but I can't explain when or where AWS will build new regions that have not been announced. :-)

[1] https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/20180907214047.26914-1-jscho...



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