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Why I Dislike EC2
EC2 is great if you need per-hour billing and instance provisioning. For everyone else, which is most, it's just really expensive and slow hardware.
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EC2 is great if you need per-hour billing and instance provisioning. For everyone else, which is most, it's just really expensive and slow hardware.
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