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Facebook has migrated Instagram's colossal collection of images out of Amazon Web Services and into its own bit barns. News of the move comes in a Youtube interview (no longer available) with Facebook infrastructure engineer and Open Compute Foundation program development chap Charlie Manese conducted by Australian hyperscale …

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  1. A Non e-mouse Silver badge
    WTF?

    Facebook has doubtless built a rig tuned to Instagram's needs, so it is probably not reasonable to draw a conclusion that AWS can't keep up with the house of Zuckerberg's data centre skills.

    Er, no. Facebook has an infrastructure and software stack tuned it's particular workload. Amazon is just providing generic compute (& storage) infrastructure.

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    1. ratfox
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      Yes. That why they wrote "it's not reasonable".

      Also, Amazon is making a profit on this.

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    2. bigtimehustler
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      Please re read the article and then realise WTF actually applies to your comment, not the article. Seeing as you just interjected and then agreed with what the author said.

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  2. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

    its own bit barns

    The lolcat mausoleum!

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  3. Leeroy

    power

    'The new Iowa facility is powered largely by wind, at a cost close to that of conventional energy sources.'

    More or less ? The first year including construction costs will obviously be (a lot) higher but what about the next 5 years or whatever the maintenance cycle of the wind farm is ?

    Did they build the wind farm themselves or are they paying a premium to the energy supplier to seem more green?

    Slightly of topic I know but since everyone is making such a big deal about global warming it would be nice to know. Apologies if it's in the video but I'm not in a wi fi area.

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  4. Amorous Cowherder
    Facepalm

    Why go through all that?

    Simply take a handful of sepia/lomo processed images of a VW van, a cup of coffee, a couple of different kittens, someone's shoes and a few assorted images of 19 year olds in "hipster" style fashions, duplicate the images to every user when on the target SANs and you're done! Bish-bosh!

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    1. theblackhand
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      Re: Why go through all that?

      You missed the "provide PR script about how wonderful the new FB de-dupe stack is" to generate a little investor hype and an increase in share price...

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  5. Nick Ryan Silver badge

    Regardless of many commentard's personal opinions of the value of facebook, it is a damn impressive setup with it hosting as many accounts, users, updates and media (pics, video) as it does. All without directly charging the end user anything at all.

    That's some engineering with cost efficiency a critical factor.

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    1. Mark #255
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      Coat

      I'm sure it costs something to have your advert displayed to $large_number_of_eyeballs.

      Or were you thinking of a different end-user?

      But yes, their infrastructure is technologically impressive.

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    2. Amorous Cowherder
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      Facepalm

      "All without directly charging the end user anything at all."

      Oh come on, you cannot be that naive surely?

      Oh no, Facebook, Twitter, Google et all do all this from the goodness of their little hearts! The cost is so little they only want to know every little detail about you or at the very least, as much as you're willing to share either directly and consciously, or more sinisterly and most often when you post something seemingly innocent, which their data harvesting algorithms will rake through multiple times looking for anything of value. Once they have it sifted and sorted, they sell "you" off to the highest bidder.

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      1. Nick Ryan Silver badge
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        Oh come on, you cannot be that naive surely?

        No

        All without directly charging the end user anything at all.

        (note the added emphasis)

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