compute unit
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Amazon EC2
A compute unit is measurement tool used to compare and contrast different virtual servers (instances). One EC2 Compute Unit provides the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor. This is also the equivalent to an early-2006 1.7 GHz Xeon processor.