[ACow_Adonis]

A benchmark doesn't mean anything unless it's benchmarked with all features and requirements accounted for.

I have all sympathy for the argument that you could do things better and cheaper than the government and IBM, but while banter isn't productive, neither is a benchmark of a bare hosted web form.

Edit: and as another poster below me pointed out, lower downs in the ABS are well aware of AWS. Inability to get new tools and methods in was one of the reasons I left (also the philosophy that tech pay basically tops out at the APS six level, and they don't want tech experts at EL1 / EL2 levels, they want "managers". Also, the government has been pretty explicit that they don't value or respect the ABS: efficiency dividends, job cuts, left without a head for a long time, moving jobs too Geelong!?!, and low levels of pay for technical experts).

Edit 2: also I just want to stare that I in no way think AWS is necessarily the right platform on which to be conducting a national census.