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by pdx6 1553 days ago
When I worked at Okta, they used EC2 without containers for their primary monolith workload. Scaling would be manual via ElB. The latest hack shows they are using NLB now, but I suspect it is still EC2 only otherwise.

To distribute database load, a cell or “block” of instances would be filled until the largest database was at 80% write capacity or so, then a new account and group was spun up for newer customers.