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Don't underestimate how cheap EC2 can be to a large organization, with complicated rules and structures around things like physical facilities, etc.

Especially when you buy down the rates for 'reserved' instances (or even the FFP GovCloud stuff).

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First, what you describe is the appearance of low cost (next to a horrible alternative), as opposed to actual low cost.

Second, the reason for this "cheapness" is not multi-tenancy but the complicated rules and structures.

The larger point is that Rodney Rogers' article asks for too much.

In fact, I believe most companies would go bust trying to fulfill his requirements. If I were to win his business I would turn it down.

I believe the best he can hope for realistically is that SAP add some more hypervisor support to their software.