However, the only thing this shows is that AWS micro instances are really slow. In the follow-up the author argues that while a small instance is much faster, its also much more expensive. While thats true i dont get the point, the pi is just not a good choice as a public webserver and if you were to use it that way you would need to co-locate it and costs would probably be comparable.
If on the other hand, you use both enviroments for heavy computing purposes it doesnt make sense to bill the EC2 instance with 24/7 as it probably would not need to be on all the time.
However, the only thing this shows is that AWS micro instances are really slow. In the follow-up the author argues that while a small instance is much faster, its also much more expensive. While thats true i dont get the point, the pi is just not a good choice as a public webserver and if you were to use it that way you would need to co-locate it and costs would probably be comparable.
If on the other hand, you use both enviroments for heavy computing purposes it doesnt make sense to bill the EC2 instance with 24/7 as it probably would not need to be on all the time.