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Dissecting SimpleDB BoxUsage

“When Amazon launched their SimpleDB service, it looked like they had found a solution in BoxUsage:
As the website states, Amazon SimpleDB measures the machine utilization of each request and charges based on the amount of machine capacity used to complete the particular request […]
and reports back a BoxUsage value in every response returned by SimpleDB. Sadly, this “measurement” is fictitious: With the possible exception of Query requests, BoxUsage values returned by SimpleDB are entirely synthetic.”
— Colin Percival