You also get significantly worse security and transparency from Linode versus EC2.

  * No multi-factor authentication for admin screens.
  * No ability to pass environment variables from admin screens to instances (useful for keeping logins off instances).
  * Customer support has ability to gain root access to machines.
  * Little to no information provided about security incidents.
  * Generally poor transparency for all incidents e.g. outages, security.
  * Recent history of major security incidents.
  * Inability to get all information in a single RSS feed.