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Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin... by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @05:23AM (#22412113)
I wonder if a lot of startups think "What if we're an overnight success and we have to scale up fast?". This is of course what Amazon makes sure to use in their marketing as well.

Examples: Twitter became far more successful than their architecture and infrastructure could handle back then.

Pokemon Go became an insanely huge success far exceeding their worst case scenario. There's a postmortem/whitepaper on Google Cloud Engine about that IIRC.

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Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin... by zeristor on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @05:33AM (#22412146)
The white paper on Pokemon Go ramping up on GCP after launch:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/bringing-pokemon-...

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