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by buster 4078 days ago
Indeed.. I am wondering the same.. I fear that at some point the baseline for performance will be some virtualized server and people will forget just how fast real hardware can be.. At some point people will think it's normal to host a simple blog on 5 virtual servers ;)

Also, by its nature EC2 should be terrible for serious benchmarking, since you have no control whatsoever about the infrastructure.