Amazon Web Service Micro Instance - Server Crash

Question

I am currently using an AWS micro instance as a web server for a website that allows users to upload photos. Two questions:

1) When looking at my CloudWatch metrics, I h

Answer 1

I had the same issue: As far as I understand the problem is that AWS will slow you down when you reach a predefined usage. This means that they allow for a small burst but after that things will become horribly slow.

You can test that by logging in and doing something. If you use the CPU for a couple of seconds then the whole box will become extremely slow. After that you'll have to wait without doing anything at all to get things back to "normal".

That was the main reason I went for VPS instead of AWS.