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Compute units are actually a quantitative unit. One compute unit is, to the best of my recollection as I'm on mobile, the equivalent work of a specific class of
by nucleardog 14y ago
Compute units are actually a quantitative unit. One compute unit is, to the best of my recollection as I'm on mobile, the equivalent work of a specific class of 1.7GHz CPU.
Other than the "I/O Performance", I think all of their specs are pretty well defined if you're willing to dig up the appropriate docs.
- michaelt 14y agoI suppose it depends on whether your application depends on ephemeral disk random or sequential I/O, EBS I/O, I/O to the internet at large, cpu cache, ram bandwidth, support for AVX instructions and so on. To be fair it's understandable why Amazon doesn't promise these features will or won't be present - it would make their already-complicated product offering even more complicated. And for a great many applications, customers won't be sensitive to details like CPU cache and disk performance.