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by mqzaidi 4738 days ago
Not worth the risk. While the micro instances can handle the load and have good burst performance, they aren't good if the load is sustained. So if you get a sudden burst, and load average jumps, expect EC2 to penalize you.

See steal time and stolen CPU - http://www.newvem.com/whats-cpu-steal-time.

I have seen a micro instance become unaccessible to even ssh after a prolonged activity.