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by decwakeboarder 3323 days ago
ec2 is ~easy though, they're just smaller VMs on newer hosts.

I'm amazed that things like SimpleDB are still around and supported even though only a handful of engineers in my ~200 person org have heard of it.
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yeukhon 3323 days ago
I believe they aren't allowed to change the hardware spec, so at some point they will not be able to get supplies anymore. As far as SimpleDB, yeah, believe it or not, on AWS bill, it still exist and most support engineers from Amazon don't really have a clue why it's there. I still don't know which service we use is using SimpleDB. Only a few cents, so nobody really care.
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decwakeboarder 3323 days ago
Is that true? They'd still need to adhere to HVM vs. PVM, but that should be it.
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yeukhon 3323 days ago
Well, they advertised m1 as such and such hardware spec. I don't know if in their ToS they state they would be allowed to change the spec without notifying customer. Maybe.

I believe m1 is only available on PV.

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