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Amazon EC2 vs VirtualBox: Which is best for you?

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- When I shift to ec2, it had many features like security groups, auto scaling and load balancer which made my application highly available and it was cost effective.
- Occasionally, I will have to stop/start an instance because the underlying host has an issue.
- I didn't find another tool which can currently replace VirtualBox to host my VMs for testing and still a great tool free of charge.
- The Guest Additions doesn't work properly with all the OSes, and also sometimes changing the screen size/resolution of the VM running might create an issue like flickering.
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