But that doesn’t make any sense. We’re not talking about physical hardware we’re talking about tiny tiny slices of it. When VMs are the logical isolation boundary in your infra they get really small — 512 MB is a lot of memory for a single purpose server.
> 512 MB is a lot of memory for a single purpose server.
Maybe. But when the time comes 512 MB doesn't seem like much anymore, what do you do? Do you pick the next larger instance or do you split the load across more 512 MB slices of a computer?