Each Linode is equipped with shared CPU cores or dedicated CPU cores. Understanding the difference between these is key to determining the best plan for your workloads.
Dedicated CPU Linode s are virtual machines that provide you with dedicated CPU resources. Their vCPU cores are guaranteed (and, thus, competition-free) so there are no surprises or CPU-related performance degradation.
Premium instances run on our latest, dedicated AMD EPYC™ CPUs, giving you consistent, high-throughput compute. Choose from our selection of supported Linux distributions or BYO installation after deployment.