[BinaryIdiot]

> But I'm guessing you don't scale up 1M+ servers

Do they really need 1 million servers? Many of my friends who work at other tech companies need such few servers in comparison even with significantly high traffic that just screams massive inefficiencies...which seems wrong.

But I've never worked at Amazon so I wouldn't know.

[convivialdingo]

At one of my previous companies we managed about 100 servers for peaks of about 30 million users.

But we didn’t handle free-form text search like Amazon. I can imagine that would necessitate a huge scaling up of compute and data.

[deegles]

Judging by all the error pages after launch, they needed more!