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2.5 terabits per second : Infinite-capacity wireless vortex beams; One Trillion Tons : Carbon Pollution; 1 Megawatt: more power due to leap second; 100,000 terabytes: information storage capability of one gram of human stool; 2.8B social interactions per day : Zynga; 2 trillion requests a day : Akamai
Hugh E. Williams on eBay by the numbers: 10 petabytes of data, 300 million items for sale, 250 million user queries per day, 100 million active users, 2 billion pages served per day, $68 billion in merchandise sold in 2011, 75 billion database calls each day.
@adrianco: At best you are only a few one-line code changes away from an outage. Experiences find those bugs, then there is a big dose of random luck.
With strangely little reaction to Amazon's post-mortem it was nice to see Dmitriy Samovskiy's take in Applying 5 Whys to Amazon EC2 Outage: AWS effectively lost its control plane for entire region as a result of a failure within a single AZ. This was not supposed to be possible. Also, Power outage, seriously?, On Hacker News, Multi-AZ failover never happened. Not even manually. Totally disappointed, My Friday Night With AWS

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