This reminds of something I read - apparently, for whatever reason, not all EC2 instances of the same class perform the same.
So, some large AWS customers (like Netflix) keep spawning instance, run some benchmarks on them, then if the instance is in top X% as far as performance goes, they keep it; otherwise they drop it.
Which means that, what a regular customer gets, is an instance that someone (or multiple someones) found not good enough and dropped ;]
Do we have reason to believe low performance is an enduring property of the instance, or could it just be that instance performance varies over time (i.e. when neighbors are hungrier)?
Regular customers can run benchmarks and drop sluggish servers, too.
The books and digital videos I get have been great quality.
Do they let you download the videos or do you have to stream them?