Disk IO and throughput benchmarks on Amazon's EC2

Re:Disk IO and throughput benchmarks on Amazon's EC2 by windsurfer on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @05:40PM (#986776)

EC2 is to the hosting world as McDonald's is to the restaurant world. Consistent, predictable, obvious.

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Re:Disk IO and throughput benchmarks on Amazon's EC2 by psadauskas on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @10:34PM (#987247)

But also one of the most expensive... Doesn't really fit that analogy.

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Re:Disk IO and throughput benchmarks on Amazon's EC2 by m_eiman on Thursday December 10, 2009 @02:50AM (#987513)

If it's cheap or not depends on what you compare to. Most other VPS systems are like home cooking: it's cheaper (and likely tastes better) but you have to do more work yourself. EC2 is more like McD: the price is higher but all you have to do is eat the thing / run the actual app. You can also buy just a cheese burger when you need it, you don't have to order a big meal.

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