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Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by 1_person on Thursday April 23, 2020 @05:44PM (#22961876)
The CDN will be fronting most of the load, behind that 10 decently specced servers running sanely architected code can scale to millions, if not tens of millions of requests per second.

Drop the servers in HA sets of 2-3 nodes across 3-4 regions, anycast your service endpoint from each cluster. The hardest thing to replicate without AWS is the 6-7 figure bills.

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Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by AmericanChopper on Thursday April 23, 2020 @05:55PM (#22961999)
What you’re describing is “good enough service levels for what I need” not “the same level of service as AWS” (or a superior level, as the parent comment implied).

If some sanely architected code was all you needed, then you’d expect at least other cloud/IaaS providers to be able to match AWS service levels. Which they can’t, and which some little software shop most certainly cannot either.

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Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by qaq on Thursday April 23, 2020 @06:47PM (#22962450)
Look at actual downtime of US East over the years.
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Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by all_blue_chucks on Thursday April 23, 2020 @05:56PM (#22962014)
So what do you do when you are featured on CNN or whatever and you need to scale up massively in a matter of minutes? Do you just let all those sales go?
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