AWS introduced 5th-generation EC2 instances in selected regions. These instances live on Nitro which is KVM based. These c5 and m5 instances are faster yet cheaper. The switch however cannot be done by a simple instance type change.
Moving to EC2
I had to give it a try. This blog is now moved to AWS. There are a lot of cool features but they’re sort of expensive. For example, if I put the database on RDS and memcache on ElasticCache, it will cost me $140/mo. Come on, running yum -y install memcached is not worth $50 a month! Actually, all of this blog can fit into a single instance and I…