Books from 20 years ago already advised to stop using FLOPs as an estimate of computational power. And for a good reason. I know you admitted it's not a fair comparison, but statements like this help marketing departments to do their job convincing the masses of "facts" that are highly unscientific.
It is useful to have some sort of measuring stick, however, and my comparison was more a cute attempt to show how this new offering compares with recent supercomputers than to seriously judge its capacity. Sadly Amazon gave us no other specs than FLOPs to go on..
