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Amazon Makes It Almost Impossible To Calculate Their "Virtual CPU" Equivalent (informationweek.com)
dkatana writes: AWS started out defining its virtual CPUs as being composed of EC2 compute units, or ECUs, which it defined as an equivalent to a physical Xeon processor. However, a virtual CPU now looks suspiciously variable... A virtual CPU is whatever Amazon wants to offer in an instance series. The user has no firm measure to go by. From the article:
[B]y doing a little math, you could actually compare what you were getting in virtual CPUs in EC2 versus Azure. Also by doing a little math, you knew how to compare one Amazon instance to another based on the ECU count in each virtual CPU. Microsoft didn't look too bad in the comparison.
That is one of the casualties of the nomenclature change.
I have searched for updated information on how a virtual CPU is measured and found nothing comparable to the definition of the 2012 ECU measure. I have questioned Amazon representatives three times between Oct. 27 and Dec. 21, and don't have much of an answer."
Most people don't care about the exact performance, so it's not with spending the money and effort to precisely define or guarantee it.
Amazon is generic and cheap. Microsoft has really good integration with visual studio and .NET. Those are the factors people choose by.
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Alternative: build your own private cloud out of the smallest servers you can find that still suit your need. I did so: a private cloud on HP Microserver (gen 8). The things consume almost no power when idle. Taken together, they provide quite the computing power ( 64 cores, Xeon E3 ) and quite the storage (32 TB). Cost me around € 450 in electric power per year. Am not dependent on Azure or Amazon. Use no bandwidth when doing cloudy things.
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Microsoft is a joke and since Satya insist on moving everything to India, treating people like shit, and firing everyone after a few years for "IP" reasons, it's a trainwreck of a company that only still survives because of its initial brand-name and market penetration.