How does Amazon EC2 compare to shared web hosting?
pskomoroch: 1) yes.  2) no. 3) no.  ...there is a minimum guaranteed performance level for each instance type.  for small instances (1 core), each user gets a minimum of 1/N of the system resources.  If you fire up an extra-large instance, you essentially get the whole box to yourself, including I/O.see: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2008-02-01/Develope...