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I know the point you're trying to make, but it's a weak one. 75% of the kernel is written by corporate employees. http://apcmag.com/linux-now-75-corporate.htm
75% of the kernel is written by corporate employees. And that implies what about the kernel?
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Sorry you had a bad experience. I have gotten nothing but superb support from Amazon staff. I'm surprised they weren't willing to accommodate you, doubly so if you were ready to pay. One thing that surprises me is when people talk about utilizing multiple availability zones in EC2 as some sort of burden. It's very clear from their documentation and architecture that you need to be capable running in at least 2 availa…
> people talk about utilizing multiple availability zones in EC2 as some sort of burden My use case isn't for an ongoing server where you require availability. It's purely about compute power - I don't care where the compute power comes from but preferably I want low latency to my customer. So ideally I would just get all instances for any given customer from a single region. I did find in the end that, as you say, I…