Well, I think that's still controversial, but it sells hard drives. For RAM, I still buy a 16GB DIMM; if I buy it from Amazon I expect it to show up as 16GB, n

Well, I think that's still controversial, but it sells hard drives. For RAM, I still buy a 16GB DIMM; if I buy it from Amazon I expect it to show up as 16GB, not 14.9GB. With EC2, that's not the case. But the point is that I trust Google, when I see something from Amazon I know to check the fine print.