While I agree with every point you make here about the EC2 Tiny m1micros. A good test for the instances was this article since posting this the site has receive

While I agree with every point you make here about the EC2 Tiny m1micros. A good test for the instances was this article since posting this the site has received over 10,000 visitors and at one point in time it was dealing with 10 - 50 visitors a second while this isn't ideal to run 'business critical' software on a tiny instance if it ever had to deal with such a large array of consumers on a daily basis it would be scaled immediately to something more robust. However the past 10 hours have prooven that the m1's do have some balls :) both the site and the processing exist on the same machine and have only marginally struggled with 0 downtime from the HNEffect