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I'm looking at the Amazon EC for a small Linux hosting setup of up to a dozen site that I want decent performance for standard PHP/MySQL sites. I would like opinions about the value-for-money of Amazon's service when considering:
... in comparison to other similar priced Linux VPS hosting setups.
I understand scalability is a big bonus with Amazon, but I'm more interested in the above 3 factors.
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Amazon EC2 / cloud is mostly relevant if you need on-demand, scalable infrastructure. Your analysis seems to be more of a "what's in the box" query, which is more relevant to a VPS vs. VPS analysis.
But since you ask:
1) Speed: It's a bit like asking how long is a piece of string... Are you interested in IO, BW, inter-server comms etc.? Anyway, with EC2 you are paying for a box that's as large as you need. So in theory any problems with the physical speed of the box can be alleviated by just procuring larger EC2 hardware.
2) Cost: Linked to item number 1. Need a really big box and you'll be paying several dollars per hour. We actually run a relatively large business using only the 'Small' box instances, which cost us about 10 cents/hr. In general EC2 may have a higher annual cost than a fixed term VPS lease (which makes sense, cause EC2 is about on-demand infrastructure and not fixed infrastructure).
3) Setup: My personal opinion is that EC2 can be a challenge to get used to on first contact. It may also require some understand of security (pub/priv keys) and scripting. But once understood, it's actually a pretty neat infrastructure to use and maintain.
We actually had a recent set of blog entries that may be of interest:
http://blog.labslice.com/2010/11/cloud-vs-vps-vs-shared-hosting.html http://blog.labslice.com/2010/11/when-is-cloud-suitable-for-basic.html http://blog.labslice.com/2010/11/why-your-business-really-needs-cloud.html
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