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Amazon uses nearly half a million servers to power EC2, researcher estimates

Posted March 18, 2012 - 7:40 am

Although most end users never get a clear view of the infrastructure underlying the services they consume via Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, Accenture Research Manager Huan Liu recently estimated that a whopping 454,400 individual blade servers are currently being used to power that product.
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Amazon EC2 to run Microsoft Windows Server

Posted October 3, 2008 - 11:02 am

Maybe it's because they liked the Jerry Seinfeld commercials. For whatever reason, Amazon has gotten the Microsoft religion and will be running Windows Server and SQL Server on its Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2).
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