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>AWS is a data center of supercomputers How the hell was this published?
by imh 10y ago
>AWS is a data center of supercomputers
How the hell was this published?
- ryanmarsh 10y agoHow would you explain AWS to the layperson in a phrase?
- slapresta 10y agoWith words that have meanings? To the layperson, "data center" and "supercomputers" translates to "tech stuff". "AWS is a service by Amazon that runs software for you in computers connected to the internet" is still inaccurate, but has a meaning for the layperson other than "tech buzzwords with superlatives".
- ryanmarsh 10y agoIt's reasonable to expect the typical Atlantic reader to know what a supercomputer is and to ascertain what a data center is in this context. Painting with a broad brush that's what AWS is.
- jaibot 10y agoEh, it's not that inaccurate. AWS is a bunch of data centers full of big computers that simulate a bunch of smaller computers.
- killbrad 10y agoCan you say that in a generally digestible way?
- boyaka 10y agoAWS is a computing service built on "datacenters" located all around the world, which are large warehouses packed tightly with racks of computers that are networked together and efficiently powered and cooled. I'm missing a description of virtual machines / containers but that might be going into too much detail.
- paulddraper 10y agoThat's basically what EC2 is. Wikipedia: > A supercomputer is a computer with great speed and memory. AWS's machines have more memory and CPUs that you would find in personal computers, with gigabit networking. Granted, AWS does a lot of other things: split these machines into smaller VMs, allow users to bid on prices, offer higher-level services like queues and distributed storage. If this is the greatest technical inaccuracy, they're doing pretty good.