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Re:Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison by zhoutong on Friday June 08, 2012 @12:22AM (#4082666)
Also have to consider the inferior CPU performance:

1 ECU is equivalent to 1.0 GHz - 1.2 GHz Xeon CPU in 2007. And the number of cores is usually small.

Re:Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison by dasrecht on Friday June 08, 2012 @05:11AM (#4083395)
Basically this is true and this leads to the conclusion that instance types like (micro, small and medium) are quite underpowered compared to "today's" usage patterns right?