A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M+ Users on Amazon's AWS
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HN comment orderI work in the entertainment / ticketing industry and we've been burned badly before by relying on AWS' Elastic Load Balancer due to sudden & unexpected traffic spikes. From the article: "Elastic Load Balancer (ELB): [...] It scales without your doing anything. If it sees additional traffic it scales behind the scenes both horizontally and vertically. You don’t have to manage it. As your applications scales so is the ELB." From Amazon's ELB documentation: "Pre-Warming the Load Balancer: [...] In…
Here's some anecdata from someone serving 1.5 million monthly users with a realtime (chat etc.) web app. Disregarding the file serving functionality, this is the entire infrastructure: - The frontend is running on a 30 bucks/mo VPS with cycles and RAM to spare. - There's 2 DB servers for 5 bucks / mo for redundancy. This thing would scale pretty linearly in theory, so for 10 million users just add like 4 servers. So about 200 bucks / mo to…
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-12 | A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M+ Users on Amazon's AWSFirst breakout · Best thread | dsr12 | 445 | 146 |
| 2017-06-01 | Scaling to 11+ million users on AWS | amzans | 5 | 0 |
| 2018-12-26 | A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M Users on Amazon's AWS (2016)Latest 20+ point return | febin | 253 | 91 |