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Umm... With EC2, which is what they often use, powering up and configuring 1000 machines can take 10 minutes or so, give or take a ramped boot. :-)

• parbo 16y ago
  It makes you wonder how many servers Amazon adds per week..
  • byoung2 16y ago
    That's a question I'd like the answer to. A normal customer is limited to 20 on-demand or reserved instances per region. Could anyone request to have that limit raised to 1000 per week?