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Birth of the cloud: EC2 and S3

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Birth of the cloud: EC2 and S3

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- Running your own servers, 2 whether from your own office or from within a data center 3 has a lot of challenges to it. 4 You need to have staff that understands 5 how to maintain and to fix all that hardware, 6 and that team also needs to be responsible 7 for maintaining all the software 8 that's running on that hardware. 9 Another issue that companies were facing was scaling. 10 So depending on how your application works, 11 a single server has a limit 12 to how much traffic it can handle. 13 Doubling the size of your business 14 might mean that you have to double your physical hardware 15 to handle the load, 16 but what if over the weekend 17 your website suddenly got a hundred times 18 the normal amount of traffic 19 because you got mentioned in a news publication? 20 Typically, the servers would become so overloaded 21 that most people trying to hit your website 22 would wait and wait and wait 23 and they would…

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