"That cost has to be taken into account and added to the fact that across many AWS offerings, you're looking at as much as a 10x price / performance penalty ver

"That cost has to be taken into account and added to the fact that across many AWS offerings, you're looking at as much as a 10x price / performance penalty versus dedicated or collocation." This. The pricing is especially egrerious in bandwidth charges which for AWS are almost pure profit. Amazon is only cheap if you don't use it.