Report: Amazon Cloud Backed By 450,000 Servers

1sockchuck writes "How many servers does it take to power Amazon's huge cloud computing operation? A researcher estimates that Amazon Web Services is using at least 454,400 servers in seven data center hubs around the globe. The analysis suggests up to 70 percent of those servers may be in Virginia."

Obligatory xkcd

[zill]

Wrong, it's actually just one machine. [xkcd.com]

Re:Go Virginia

[cashman73]

Except I suppose the citizens of Virginia aren't going to be too happy when the government realizes that Amazon has a "physical presence" in the state and decides to start charging them sales tax,. . . D'oh!

what are these server things?

[alen]

i thought the cloud was this magical circle in a white paper where all the data just lives