I think you'll find that AWS doesn't do that outside of the vCPU credit-system nodes (which I think are just t1/t2). The resources you have rented from Amazon a

I think you'll find that AWS doesn't do that outside of the vCPU credit-system nodes (which I think are just t1/t2). The resources you have rented from Amazon are your resources, especially as you get up to scale (when it really starts to matter in a big way, capitally speaking). I didn't make up that sentiment, by the way; an account representative said it to me verbatim. It seemed mostly true in practice, and it's a big driver of why it's tough for firms like Linode and DigitalOcean to compete in the same arena.