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by pgroves 5248 days ago
That number for AWS is based on running the benchmark in May 2010 [1].

[1] http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2010/05/what-is-ecu-cpu-benchma...
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simon_kun 5248 days ago
I'm not sure AWS have updated their specs since then (all the specs for an ECU refer to a 1Ghz 2007 Xeon). We also tested our staging c1.xlarge and it scored less than the cloudharmony results indicated a c1.xlarge should.
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