Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2 by rbranson on Thursday September 09, 2010 @05:51PM (#1677078)

Semantics. The end result is the same: there is almost always a large amount of spare CPU cycles on each physical box, which can be utilized by instances to "burst" above their allocated capacity.

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Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2 by commx on Thursday September 09, 2010 @06:40PM (#1677212)

It's more than semantics. The term "burst" carries the implication that you only get something for a short time. That's really not a good reflection of reality in this situation.

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Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2 by rbranson on Friday September 10, 2010 @11:02AM (#1679035)

Who cares what term they use or what implication it has? In reality, it is the same concept. That's why it is SEMANTICS.

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Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2 by commx on Friday September 10, 2010 @03:55PM (#1680005)

Words have meanings and carry implications. By your logic, we might as well use the term "banana" instead. The point is that the concept doesn't reflect reality, and thus your point has no merit.

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Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2 by rbranson on Friday September 10, 2010 @09:21PM (#1680738)

You fuck goats. Way to take this way the fuck off topic.

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Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2 by dfranke on Friday September 10, 2010 @10:32PM (#1680868)

You've been here a year and a half and should know better than to post comments like this one.

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