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Gartner analyst Kyle Hilgendorf has spotted something very interesting: Amazon Web Services seems to have stopped rating cloud servers based on EC2 compute units (ECUs), its proprietary metric of computing power. ECUs were an odd metric, as they were based on “... the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or …

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  1. Bernard

    Has the definition of 'very interesting' changed while I wasn't looking

    or was this an ironic use of the term?

    It would be very interesting to find out...

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    1. Ole Juul
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      Re: Has the definition of 'very interesting' changed while I wasn't looking

      El Reg has moved from VIU (very interesting units) to VIU (virtually interesting units).

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  2. Rhyd

    Still used

    Click Pricing and you'll see ECU is still used. Note that m3.medium, m1.small and t1.micro are all 1 vCPU, hardly a useful comparison!

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  3. John Savard

    And, of course, there was an old coin called an ecu... and then the European Currency Unit preceded the Euro.

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  4. pdehkordi

    How come I still see ECU on my AWS?

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  5. Sorry that handle is already taken. Silver badge

    A layman asks...

    What makes "vCPU" any more or less meaningful than "ECU"?

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