If you eschew the AWS EBS-backed services, which is pretty much all of them, why are you on EC2 to begin with? When you operate at a scale where the above matt

If you eschew the AWS EBS-backed services, which is pretty much all of them, why are you on EC2 to begin with? When you operate at a scale where the above matters, and unless you need enormous elasticity, running Eucalyptus/SolusVM on your own gear is significantly cheaper.