Amazon launches EC2 instances with SSDs →
8 “virtual cores” (are they counting each Hyperthreading virtual core separately, so this is only 4 hardware cores from a Xeon E5?), 60 GB RAM, and a whopping 2 TB of SSD storage for $3.10 per hour. Yikes.
Nice, but I hope they bring these downmarket a bit, too — there’s quite a large gap between people who need a small amount of SSD-level I/O performance and people who need 2 terabytes of it for $2,263 per month.