If you're using a t2 instance for a heavily used production database that has a relatively steady amount of traffic, then you obviously don't understand the use

If you're using a t2 instance for a heavily used production database that has a relatively steady amount of traffic, then you obviously don't understand the use case for it. There are plenty of production workloads that are burst based in nature, and for those, t2's make plenty of sense. The micro is also hardly the only instance in the family - if you go to the opposite end, the t2.large has a baseline of 60%. They also are not interrupted or paused, so I don't know where you're getting that. If you run out of credits your performance is throttled to baseline gradually over 15 minutes. t2s are fine for production if you understand their strengths - workloads with low levels of constant usage and periodic bursts of higher resource utilization. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/t2-instances.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/t2-instan...