{"id":3415,"date":"2012-03-15T18:17:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T23:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2012-03-15T18:17:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T23:17:58","slug":"estimate-amazon-cloud-backed-by-450000-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3415","title":{"rendered":"Estimate: Amazon Cloud Backed by 450,000 Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>How many servers does it take to power Amazon\u2019s huge cloud computing operation? Like many large Internet companies, Amazon doesn\u2019t disclose details of its infrastructure, including how many servers it uses. But a researcher estimates that Amazon Web Services is using at least 454,400 servers in seven data center hubs around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Huan Liu, a research manager at Accenture Technology Labs, analyzed Amazon\u2019s EC2 compute service using internal and external IP addresses, which he extrapolated to come up with estimates for the number of racks in each data center location. Liu then applied an assumption of 64 blade servers per rack \u2013 four 10U chassis, each holding eight blades \u2013 to arrive at the estimate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2012\/03\/14\/estimate-amazon-cloud-backed-by-450000-servers\/\">Estimate: Amazon Cloud Backed by 450,000 Servers \u00bb Data Center Knowledge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet Mother of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many servers does it take to power Amazon\u2019s huge cloud computing operation? Like many large Internet companies, Amazon doesn\u2019t disclose details of its infrastructure, including how many servers it uses. But a researcher estimates that Amazon Web Services is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3415\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[206,67,41],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-amazon","tag-cloud-computing","tag-data-centers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3416,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/3416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}