. The summary On the whole Amazon EC2 and Mosso are very close competitors. Amazon loses out on CPU power per dollar spent, but Mosso costs a bit more per gigabyte of RAM. Mosso loses out on 'extra storage' but wins on general IO speed. Mosso has the advantage on individual server upgrades with it's instant-upgrade features, but Amazon wins on large-scale deployment because of it's API and solid auto-scaling options. So which do you choose? If your application is particularly memory bound, requires a huge amount of disk space, or if you are at the higher end in terms of clustering requirements, Amazon's EC2 is a good solution. If that is not the case, however, EC2 just doesn't hold up, cent for cent, against Mosso's offerings. In my opinion, the combination of lower cost, better base CPU/RAM options and a smoother upgrade path make Mosso's cloud-servers the clear winner. Mosso gives you the ability to
- Tim Bauer