There are still active accounts on joindiaspora.com, who are using Amazon Web Services.

What about the Amazon computing instances?

A question for server providers, what would you do if this was happening on your servers, with someone reluctant to remove the accounts? This may be one for Amazon Web Services at the moment.

Amazon/Google/Microsoft all have compute nodes available by the hour. There are also specific services for video transcoding like Amazon Elastic Transcoder (http://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/).

Amazon EC2's compute-optimized C3 instances are for just that sort of thing (scroll down):

Thanks for the detailed tutorial. Now let's wait for amazon to fix this loophole, or allow this as a marketing tactic to make people launch more ec2 instances

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In this quick tutorial I would like to share with the community a method to get two public IP addresses on a single Amazon EC2 instance for FREE (i.e. without paying extra for that second IP). Some of

Ads that take up bandwidth (huge flash content) and CPU rounds (animated gifs); or that interrupt the flow of the page (ads that look like comments) and distract from content (popups, redirects, multi

Shuttleworth's vision of applying so much crap onto Ubuntu like Amazon integration to make it equally or more worthless like Windows/Apple. That's why some folks choose Debian.

Amazon SES will also do.

Amazon SES, Mandrill, Mailgun, Sendgrid

Seflow/Domflow, Iwstack, Amazon, X.is, KT Cloud....

Amazon Instant Video

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=406171

to use external services like PostmarkApp, Amazon SES and the rest.

Do they have their CPU equivalents, eg Amazon mention in the past that a CPU was the equivalent of 1.7GHz Opteron or some other AMD CPU.

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@MrX - it depends on the revenue. More servers, more cost, more admin. Of course if you're running Amazon then you have the budget to scale it out properly but if its just a small site generating a fe

EDIT: Recently, I even had to remove amazon.com from whitelist and put it in senderbase due to SPAM.