And RDS just got better today with the m3 instance types - 50% faster *and* slightly cheaper per instance-hour: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2014/02/amazon-rds-support-for-second-generation-standard-instances.html Rayson ================================================== Open Grid Scheduler - The Official Open Source Grid Engine http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/ http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/GridEngine/GridEngineCloud.html -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l