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[ Continue Reading ](https://www.bluematador.com/blog/using-t2.unlimited-to-increase-packet-limitations) [![](https://www.bluematador.com/hubfs/blog/new/How%20Many%20Packets%20per%20Second%20PPS%20in%20Amazon%20EC2/BM-Article-AWS-How%20Many%20Packets%20per%20Second%20in%20Amazon%20EC2.jpg) ](https://www.bluematador.com/blog/pps-spike-every-110-seconds-on-aws-ec2) [AWS](https://www.bluematador.com/blog/topic/aws) ##### [PPS Spike Every 110 Seconds on AWS EC2](https://www.bluematador.com/blog/pps-spike-every-110-seconds-on-aws-ec2) By [Blue Matador](https://www.bluematador.com/blog/author/blue-matador) on November 13, 2018 I don’t know what to say about this post… I found something weird while investigating PPS on EC2. It seems to correlate with CPU credits on t1/t2/t3 instances, but is consistently... 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