Amazon cloud: half-a-million Linux servers
Interesting speculation on the make-up of Amazon's cloud:
Amazon EC2 cloud is made up of almost half-a-million Linux servers | ZDNet :
We know that Linux on servers is big and getting bigger. We also knew that Linux, thanks to open-source cloud programs like Eucalyptus and OpenStack, was growing fast on clouds. What he hadnt know that Amazons Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), had close to half-a-million servers already running on a Red Hat Linux variant.
Huang Liu, a Research Manager with Accenture Technology Lab with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering whose has done extensive work on cloud-computing, analyzed EC2s infrastructure and found that Amazon EC2 is currently made up of 454,400 servers.