So this compared Amazon's cc.4xl server @ 2.10 an hour against, e.g., Rackspace's 16G server at 0.96 an hour, and used its local storage in RAID 0 vs Rackspace'

So this compared Amazon's cc.4xl server @ 2.10 an hour against, e.g., Rackspace's 16G server at 0.96 an hour, and used its local storage in RAID 0 vs Rackspace's SAN storage? I'm pretty sure you couldn't have compared apples to oranges any better.