Instagram ran its production service on Amazon EC2 from 2010 rather than building its own production-server infrastructure.

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"Instagram ran its production service on Amazon EC2 from 2010 rather than building its own production-server infrastructure."

WIRED reports that Instagram had run atop Amazon EC2 since its launch period in 2010, allowing the company to operate without setting up its own computer servers.

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Source title How Facebook Moved 20 Billion Instagram Photos Without You Noticing

Source authors Cade Metz

Source year 2014

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