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Greg Wilson
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Greg Wilson's personal blog at gregsramblings.com covers programming and ai. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Greg Wilson's tech blog — notes on AWS, AI, photography, and cars from the person who leads the AWS Documentation and SDK/CLI teams.
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- /2011/02/07/amazon-ec2-micro-instance-cpu-steal/4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-12-31
What Hacker News says?
It throttles if your cpu is at 100% for a few seconds. Must cpulimit heavy processes. http://gregsramblings.com/2011/02/07/amazon-ec2-micro-instan...
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on “Google launches Compute Engine”Submitted Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this as a story · 367 points
HN discussionI can attest to the unreliability of AWS Micro instances for production environments. Two examples: Ex 1: We had a request triggering an asynchronous job that would take 3-4 seconds of processor time. Several times, this job was being throttled, so even in a low traffic situation each time one of those requests came, a whole micro instance was consumed on it making it unavailable for anything else. Switching to smal…
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on “A newbie’s guide to scaling AWS”Submitted Bricking a Mars probe, before Curiosity (2012) as a story · 46 points
HN discussionGo 64-bit! A medium instance is actually a very nice option for small deployments. Micro instances are throttled - http://gregsramblings.com/2011/02/07/amazon-ec2-micro-instan... . I, personally, do not maintain any 32-bit AMIs. The offer gap between a micro and a large instance for 64 was large enough for me to feel it.
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on “New Medium Instance, 64-bit bit Ubiquity, SSH Client”Submitted I switched to AWS Bedrock APIs for Claude 3.5 Sonnet to avoid daily token limit as a story · 6 points
HN discussionEC2 micro instances throttle down very heavily if you use CPU for more than a few seconds at a time. Other instances allow you to burn 100% CPU all day, but not the micros. http://gregsramblings.com/2011/02/07/amazon-ec2-micro-instan...
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on “Nginx Requests/Second – RaspberryPi vs Amazon EC2”Submitted The Google Cloud Next OnAir Cheat Sheet as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS to Google Cloud Platform Service Mapping as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mapping of AWS services, terms, and pricing models to Google Cloud equivalents as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Screenshot of Google's managed NFS service as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted LottaTweets.com – web app for speed reading tweets as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Cloud SQL PostgreSQL now supports point-in-time recovery as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A compilation of Google Data Center videos as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google's Cloud Run 'create service' dialog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keeping up with Google Cloud news (list) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Google Flights is Awesome – a real world example as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Cloud Nearline storage explained in 30secs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remember Adobe Flash? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let’s stop trying to visualize cloud computing as physical hardware as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flex: One stop shop for mobile development as a story · 1 points
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