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Re:A Closer Look At The Christmas Eve Outage by Negitivefrags on Monday December 31, 2012 @09:00PM (#4991613)
Really? I was just using aws to run some load testing bots against our game servers and found the CPUs even in High CPU instances pitiful for the price.

The worst part about it is that the performance is so variable between instances. Some could comfortably run 1300 bots while others were slowing down so much after 750 that they started dropping bots.

Because of that, it's easier to just run 750 on each which is wasting resources.

My desktop PC can easily run 4000.

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Re:A Closer Look At The Christmas Eve Outage by raverbashing on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @06:26AM (#4992411)
Yes, desktop PCs are much faster than an EC2 instance

Maybe Linode or Rackspace (or other solution) is better for your case.

Still, apparently for your case you can just add more servers according to demand, which is the advantage of EC2

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