> The numbers being thrown around on this post are staggering. Not the bandwidth, storage or or the number of images ... but the casual tone that they're willin

> The numbers being thrown around on this post are staggering. Not the bandwidth, storage or or the number of images ... but the casual tone that they're willing to throw money at services rather than engineering ... What I found interesting, is that just a sliver of the budget is spent on software rather than hardware. I don't think this is uncommon, few teams are willing to pay for software they can get for free or make themselves. It's a bit surprising (but explainable), that commodity hardware that everyone has access to dominates the budget.