I can attest to the unreliability of AWS Micro instances for production environments. Two examples: Ex 1: We had a request triggering an asynchronous job that would take 3-4 seconds of processor time. Several times, this job was being throttled, so even in a low traffic situation each time one of those requests came, a whole micro instance was consumed on it making it unavailable for anything else. Switching to small…
Thank you for the Greg Wilson link.