Why not just colo or rent a dual E5 box with 256GB of ram and a few SSDs? You'd get a much more reliable experience for a lot less than your paying, AWS's busin

Why not just colo or rent a dual E5 box with 256GB of ram and a few SSDs? You'd get a much more reliable experience for a lot less than your paying, AWS's business model currently has them throttling CPU use very aggressively. You could throw KVM or Xen on it and run Windows atop it pretty easily, plus depending on where you colo you could likely get some DDOS protection thrown in. Alternatively, Subnet Labs, Vultr or any of the dozens of other providers that specialize in dedicated core VPSes could likely come in at somewhere around a quarter of what your currently paying, which would take you out of the loop for managing hardware entirely. Have you asked Amazon whats going on yet by the way?