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That's hardly an argument. Netflix, consuming 33% of the nation's bandwidth is a great counterexample.

In terms of scale, GoGuardian (the company I co-founded) has passed Stack Exchange. Articles like this make me so happy to be on AWS. Delegating this work to AWS allows us to focus on the product instead of the hardware that it runs on.




> That's hardly an argument. Netflix, consuming 33% of the nation's bandwidth is a great counterexample.

Actually it isn't.

Can AWS handle the scale of StackOverflow?

Absolutely. Netflix is a GREAT example of the scale AWS can handle.

However, can netflix migrate their entire system off of AWS without careful planning (which the parent of my comment was scoffing at)?

I'm a huge proponent of AWS, but I wouldn't be so naive to say that AWS allows me to be oblivious of hardware and infrastructure costs.

> In terms of scale, GoGuardian (the company I co-founded) has passed Stack Exchange.

How so? StackOverflow is #56 in the world in Internet Traffic Rank (alexa.com).




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