At least on the small scale, I'd expect realistic "local" hosting to outperform any offering from Amazon.
For example, until your data scales above 20 GB, you'd be able to host it on a $5 SSD-based server from Digital Ocean. Most databases are bottlenecked by I/O. So switching to SSDs gives you the biggest performance boost.
On the high end, Amazon's offer probably will be better. (After all, the major draw to Amazon is "automatic scaling", so that you don't have to worry about Replication or other server administration duties at the high end). But considering how powerful a $5 SSD-virtual machine is today, I think a more realistic test would be with some sort of SSD-based cloud server.
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At least on the small scale, I'd expect realistic "local" hosting to outperform any offering from Amazon.
For example, until your data scales above 20 GB, you'd be able to host it on a $5 SSD-based server from Digital Ocean. Most databases are bottlenecked by I/O. So switching to SSDs gives you the biggest performance boost.
On the high end, Amazon's offer probably will be better. (After all, the major draw to Amazon is "automatic scaling", so that you don't have to worry about Replication or other server administration duties at the high end). But considering how powerful a $5 SSD-virtual machine is today, I think a more realistic test would be with some sort of SSD-based cloud server.