Further extrapolating, m2.2xlarge has 8 pretty powerful 2.66GHz Nehalem Xeon cores, so that's 320 cores, or roughly 3.2 million "rows" (whatever that is) per se

Further extrapolating, m2.2xlarge has 8 pretty powerful 2.66GHz Nehalem Xeon cores, so that's 320 cores, or roughly 3.2 million "rows" (whatever that is) per second per core. Nothing to laugh at, but certainly not a revelation.