z1d delivers a sustained all-core 4.0 GHz on custom Intel Skylake CPUs with a 1:8 vCPU-to-memory ratio, local NVMe instance storage (up to ~1.8 TB), up to 25 Gbps networking, and up to 19 Gbps EBS bandwidth. Ideal for EDA, computational lithography, financial risk, and per-core-licensed RDBMS that benefit from very high single-thread performance.