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> But I'm guessing you don't scale up 1M+ servers Do they really need 1 million servers? Many of my friends who work at other tech companies need such few serv
by BinaryIdiot 8y ago
> But I'm guessing you don't scale up 1M+ servers
Do they really need 1 million servers? Many of my friends who work at other tech companies need such few servers in comparison even with significantly high traffic that just screams massive inefficiencies...which seems wrong.
But I've never worked at Amazon so I wouldn't know.
- deegles 8y agoJudging by all the error pages after launch, they needed more!
- convivialdingo 8y agoAt one of my previous companies we managed about 100 servers for peaks of about 30 million users. But we didn’t handle free-form text search like Amazon. I can imagine that would necessitate a huge scaling up of compute and data.