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		JasonCarter80 on Feb 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: how many EC2 instances do you run? Small bit of work here, but I use up to 11, I have one instance as my command and control that uses a messaging queue to send work to the others that are dynamically added as needed up to the self limit of 10 workers.

Lightbody on Feb 15, 2012 [–]

Thanks for sharing, Jason! What prevents you from scaling higher? Lack of need? Cost? Architecture?

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