Joey D’Antoni covers the impact of hyperthreading on warehouse performance:
Database performance, especially in the cloud, is always a big concern. Traditionally, cloud storage has not performed as well as high-end on-premises storage. The introduction of faster cloud storage (in Azure Premium V2 and Ultra Disk, in AWS IO1-3) and VMs with more available storage bandwidth has improved overall storage performance. However, storage is only sometimes the complete picture.
Read on for Joey’s tests and findings.