Micro Instances offer a small amount of consistent CPU resources that let users burst CPU capacity when additional cycles are available, Amazon said. "I can't tell you how many of you have told me you ...

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This was originally published at ZDNet's Between the Lines. Amazon has tweaked its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) pricing model to be more enterprise-friendly. The move is significant enough to sway IT ...

Earlier this year, at its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platform announced that it would soon launch a very small (but burstable) instance type for its EC2 ...