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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. LOL, Raise their taxes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    After all, they ARE the 1%

  2. 1% is "a little scary"? by gstrickler · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What's scary is that the author thinks 1% is scary. Let's talk again if they hit 10%.

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  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.