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by tonymet 1979 days ago
A more important figure to watch out for is iOPS and burst VCPU . Things are running fine, and when you get a small traffic spike, suddenly everything hangs (IO and cpu time). Then you reluctantly upgrade to solve the problem, leaving you over-resourced for most of the day. Next bump, next upgrade until you stair-step your spending into 6 figures