I came across an interesting article on the New York Times site that talks about how they used Amazon EC2 and S3 to help make their articles from 1851 -1922 available to the public online. There was a total of 11 million articles. They had to take sometimes several TIFF images and scale and glue […]
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Amazon EC2 and Zillow
In an articles on Forbes.com, “The Death of Hardware”, they discuss Zillow and their recent use of Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform to recalculate the values of some 67 million homes for their site. Zillow estimated the task would take 6 months and millions of dollars before they went with the EC2 platform which was […]
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