Many workloads such as electronic design automation (EDA) and relational databases have high per core software licensing fees. Semiconductor firms who use EDA software for the design and verification of integrated circuits have software licensing costs that account for a majority of their TCO. With z1d instances, semiconductor firms are able to run more EDA jobs per core, amortizing their annual license subscription over more jobs and reducing their design and verification time. Similarly, customers typically pay per processor licensing fees for relational database workloads and can lower licensing costs with a faster processor accompanied by a large amount of memory.