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Re:Ask HN: $40k on physical hardware? or use the cloud? by aristus on Saturday October 02, 2010 @06:44PM (#1751557)
Zynga runs largely on EC2, something like 10,000 nodes. I don't know how to define "shaky", but that company bets hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue on EC2.
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Re:Ask HN: $40k on physical hardware? or use the cloud? by flannell on Saturday October 02, 2010 @06:51PM (#1751567)
I didn't know that. I guess it scales extremely well.
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