You might get a better number on bare metal, and you certainly won't get a worse one, so in a sense it's not ideal. On the other hand, a big chunk of the web i

You might get a better number on bare metal, and you certainly won't get a worse one, so in a sense it's not ideal. On the other hand, a big chunk of the web is run from AWS. Demonstrating performance there implies performance in many places. It's also an easily reproducible environment, which is helpful for benchmarking.