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EC2 is just one platform. Although many people point to EC2 as the gold standard, it's worth noting that Google and Facebook both avoid virtualized servers. O
by rescrv 14y ago
EC2 is just one platform. Although many people point to EC2 as the gold standard, it's worth noting that Google and Facebook both avoid virtualized servers. On the other hand, EC2 is about leveraging spare capacity and intentionally oversubscribing machines.
- aidenn0 14y agoYes, but it's a popular platform that doesn't (at first blush) appear to meat the assumptions on the page I posted. My question still stands at "Do I need to have all my machines in the same datacenter"
- rescrv 14y agoYou don't need all machines in the same data center. Latency between machines does have effects on performance, so it is faster in a single data center.