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Don't confuse an EC2 instance with real hardware. It's a convenient measure of computing resources used for billing purposes.
by drallison 16y ago
Don't confuse an EC2 instance with real hardware. It's a convenient measure of computing resources used for billing purposes.
- wmf 16y agoI'm not sure why you say this. When Amazon says that you get 1.7GB of RAM, that's what you get. It's not an abstraction. The price of DRAM seems to be falling a lot faster than Amazon's prices.
- Psyonic 16y agoThe price of DRAM isn't falling though. A year and a half ago 6GB of DDR3 was cheaper than it is now. Sure over the long term its getting cheaper, but it takes awhile.