Agreed! That said - a lot of people don't realize that Amazon's services can be quite slow and think they can always throw it on there and it'll be fast. They'

Agreed! That said - a lot of people don't realize that Amazon's services can be quite slow and think they can always throw it on there and it'll be fast. They're often high latency (for a service - 180+ms) but are also high availability. Slap a CDN in front (like Fastly) and get in the 10s of ms response time if possible.