[john37386]

EC2 throttles everything by default and PPS is no exception.

What can you do when your system needs more bandwidth, cpu, ram or any other kind of resources?

You can either scale vertically... which is not bad at beginning of a project, but sooner or later you will hit the ultimate limit.

Or

You can scale horizontally. Which means that you have enough nodes or instances to bypass those limits and make sure your projects grow well over time.

Netflix runs on EC2 and they probably generate billions of PPS from Amazon. For sure it's several millions PPS a d they seem to not hit the limits mentionned in the article.

[spydum]

What is it you think netflix runs on AWS? Content distribution is served from their Open Connect CDN, not AWS.. last I understood, most of Netflix cloud workloads were analytical/DWH, and services.. Not generally billions of PPS, and certainly not to single instances.