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How any millions of dollars worth of electricity has been spent on storing instagram selfies? That is the more important question.

• sanswork 11y ago
  3 years ago they had "100+" AWS instances(so knowing when ops guys use 100+ I'm guessing like 125 tops) so thats what like a handful of racks for ~100 million users. So not much for the number of users they support would be the answer I guess.
  • grubles 11y ago
    AWS linux instances range from $0.50 to $5.520 per hour. The most expensive instance (x125) will cost $496,800 per month.
    • sanswork 11y ago
      Thats how much they cost to rent not how much they cost in electricity to run.
• mpyne 11y ago
  Somehow I suspect that Instagram manages to handle more than 2.7 photos per second, and without each individual photo costing $10 to handle on top of it all. Even a bubble sort will eventually get you a sorted list, but there's a reason we don't actually use it in practice.