Remember the turbo button on PCs? New AWS compute instance has one for burst power

Yes, we know it slowed old kit - but not in Amazon's case

Amazon Web Services has unveiled a cheaper EC2 instance that's supposed to be suitable for running small workloads at low cost. Crucially, it allows users to temporarily ramp up performance only when it's really needed.…

via The Register - Data Centre: Cloud

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