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I think this article misses a really important comparison point.

Does anyone know if Lightsail uses the same CPU credit system as t2 EC2 instances?

Details on what CPU credits are can be found at: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/t2-instan...

Basically if you use too much CPU for too long, AWS will throttle your CPU usage. This is detrimental to performance in cases where you're not just idling most of the time.

I've had plenty of apps on DO use 40-60% CPU 24/7 without any performance degradation or throttling. Will Lightsail do the same?




Another poster has referenced this: http://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/posts/amazon_lightsail_1gb_is_n...

It seems to confirm your suspicion. I'm not clear on whether Amazon implemented it this way on purpose, or if it was just the quickest path to launch a product, and they'll fix it later.


Thanks for the link. So basically Lightsail isn't even in the same galaxy as DO unless they drop this constraint.

Edit:

I feel like they did this on purpose. It's tough to imagine an oversight as large as this slipped through by accident. It's also something developers will figure out in a matter of minutes while running on their platform.

Hopefully they only have it constrained now to make sure their system doesn't tumble over and they will lift it.

I guess they avoided to mention it because this pitch doesn't sound too attractive on stage: "Introducing Lightsail, a VPS competitor platform where you can get a 1 CPU core machine for $5/month, but understand that if you use more than a few percent of the machine's CPU for any extended period of time it will result in your CPU being automatically throttled to the point where your application will likely become unresponsive, and to add insult to injury we're not really making you aware of this during sign up. On second thought, just forget about it, continue using what you're using now because this isn't suited for production in most typical web applications that developers produce -- it's odd though because that's the market we're trying to cater towards.".




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