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		_3u10 on March 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardwa... Cpu also generally sucks due to cache thrashing on non-trivial datasets

icedchai on March 16, 2015 [–]

Heh. So what is a good use case for EC2?

_3u10 on March 17, 2015 | [–]

When you have highly variable load.

eg. Netflix probably spins up thousands of servers for a few hours.

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