Comparing S3 with EC2 micro instance with go

Created the same page on both S3 and on an EC2 micro instance running linux & go.

Using Google's web master tools as a bench-marker: the S3 instance is for Croydon:

And on EC2 micro instance for New Malden:

Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds)

Looks pretty good - this is the instance that bench-marked well.

All assets etc are the same, so should be a fair comparison, I'll give it a few days to get a good average.