Inside Amazon's Cloud Computing Infrastructure

1sockchuck writes: As Sunday's outage demonstrates, the Amazon Web Services cloud is critical to many of its more than 1 million customers. Data Center Frontier looks at Amazon's cloud infrastructure, and how it builds its data centers. The company's global network includes at least 30 data centers, each typically housing 50,000 to 80,000 servers. "We really like to keep the size to less than 100,000 servers per data center," said Amazon CTO Werner Vogels. Like Google and Facebook, Amazon also builds its own custom server, storage and networking hardware, working with Intel to produce processors that can run at higher clockrates than off-the-shelf gear.

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“Every day, Amazon enough new server capacity to support all of Amazon’s global infrastructure when it was a $7 billion annual revenue enterprise,” said James Hamilton, Distinguished Engineer at Amazon, who described the AWS infrastructure at the Re:Invent conference last fall. “There’s a lot of scale. That volume allows us to reinvest deeply into the platform and keep innovating.”

Did they use AWS for translation on this paragraph? How do you have "a lot of scale"? One can scale up or down, but is this like a computer hokey pokey? Scale is a verb!

Really, I skimmed this one pretty lightly. It looks like a marketing article, not a technical article. Buzz words a plenty, so I'm guessing your question is answered by "marketing"..