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It's interesting that apart from the DynamoDB and the SQL Warehouse (Redshaft?) there's a pretty large LevelDB instance serving the sites/services.

I also wonder if in reality there were only one or two instances in each zone for each site behind the ELBs and the others were added to show how scalable the infrastructure is; or if their number actually did correspond to the avg. number of instances they ended up having to spin up.



My guess is that they wouldn't have used Redshift as it only became available for beta a few weeks before the election.


They used Vertica, which they didn't seem to be too pleased about. I think they would have liked to use Redshift it was available.


This is sized during the last few days; prior to that definitely smaller scale (same groups, fewer nodes)




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