I'm not sure where you see a difference between a VM and physical hardware when ...

		Negitivefrags on March 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardwa... I'm not sure where you see a difference between a VM and physical hardware when it comes to provisioning. Sure, the physical hardware takes 1 hour rather than 1 minute to spin up, but the process is otherwise entirely identical.

1 hour? Welcome to 2015! OVH spins your server up in two minutes.