Monday, 22 October 2012

Researchers find not all EC2 instances are created equal

Different Xeon and Opteron CPUs sold under same name


Researchers from Deutsch Telekom Laboratories and Finland's Aalto University have claimed it is possible to detect the CPUs of servers powering at Amazon Web Services' (AWS') Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and that the fact the cloudy giant uses different kit in different places means users can select more powerful servers at the same cost charged for lesser hardware.…






via The Register - Cloud

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/22/ec2_hardware_heterogeneity/

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