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Amazon's Cloud Now 1% of Internet Traffic

Posted by Unknown on from the cloud-internet-convergence dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Wired story claims Amazon's cloud now hosts enough companies and traffic to generate 1% of all Internet traffic (and visits from 1/3 of daily Internet users). An amazing number if true. And a little scary for one company to host this much cloud infrastructure."

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  1. Re:Akamai was there years ago by ProfessionalTech · · Score: 4, Informative

    And delivering static content (images, videos, software executables and patches and so on) is what makes most of the traffic on Amazon's network, so thinking about non-internet related purposes on a story about how much traffic Amazon has is a moot point. Besides, Akamai's CDN and the availability of their network in different parts of the world is much more impressive than Amazon's.

  2. Re:Netflix? by alen · · Score: 4, Informative

    netflix is hosted by level 3 inside the ISP's networks

    they use amazon for the authentication part

  3. Re:"Server" Costs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes. Using a Cloud for 1:1 replacement of a physical hardware is silly. The point is to use the Cloud to flexibly manage your instances I.e. if you're hosting a website, you can spin up more instances during your busy hours, and shut them down again when it's quite: unlike physical hardware, which would sit idle during the quite periods.