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Agreed - just check cloud comparison, AWS is rarely at the top: https://www.cloudorado.com/cloud_server_comparison.jsp

Well, if you're going to use bad figures, then sure, AWS won't win. The default size there is 768MB RAM, 1 cpu, and 50GB disk... which it says AWS will provide for $54. Whereas in actuality a t2.micro with those specs only costs $14, lower than all the listed prices (which are all clearly out of date)

Not to mention all the big names missing from that list. For some reason Dimension Data makes the list (and it's woeful, from experience), but there's no Digital Ocean, OVH, Hetzner, etc...

As per my other reply: A t2.micro does not allow you to use more than 10% of the vCPU on a sustained basis. Any use over that needs to be earned, and you only earn 6 credits (for one minute each) per hour.

Wow thanks for sharing this link. Didn't know about this.

One thing I noticed though is the pricing seems a bit biased; for example for AWS it recommends an m1.small with 1GB Ram and 20GB of Storage at $35 a month ... However if you used a t2.micro that would give you the same specs for $10.79

Not quite the same, you don't own the whole core on the t2 and will get cpu throttled.

> you don't own the whole core

Moving the goalposts here. 'Not owning the whole core' is the default in the cloud.

For the other instances you get a specific number of units of processing capacity that you can use 100% of continuously if you like. For the micro instances, you get a base level and build up credits towards bursts, and can not maintain 100% utilization continuously. It's very much different and not the default. To quote Amazon:

> "A CPU Credit provides the performance of a full CPU core for one minute. Traditional Amazon EC2 instance types provide fixed performance, while T2 instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst above that baseline level. The baseline performance and ability to burst are governed by CPU credits."

A t2.micro allows only 10% of the vCPU baseline performance. Anything above that needs to be "earned" at a rate of 6 credits per hour. The t2.micro can accumulate a maximum of 144 CPU credits (+ the 30 initial credits, that do not renew), each good for 1 minute of 100% use.

So in other words, you can on average only use 100% of the CPU for 6 minutes per hour.

m1.smalls are also ancient, when the current generation m4 is more than a year old at this point.

Odd site.

that's a very handy site, previously I had mostly been using http://www.ec2instances.info/ and http://www.gceinstances.info/

Thanks for pointing it out!

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