How a 2012 Presidential Campaign Ran on Amazon’s Cloud
November 18, 2012
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.
Cloud computing is pitched as a great solution for applications that are temporary or run on bursty workloads. What could be more temporary and bursty than a political campaign? Amazon’s Jeff Barr just revealed that President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign’s technology was running on the cloud — Amazon Web Services’ cloud, to be exact.
“The campaign’s technology team built, deployed, ran, and scaled up their applications on AWS,” Barr reports at the AWS blogsite. “The campaign used AWS to avoid an IT investment that would have run into the tens of millions of dollars.”…
It is reported that Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s IT system (code-named “Orca”), which had some legendary systems failures, was running on more traditional servers in a data center near the Boston-based Romney-Ryan campaign headquarters. (Details are unconfirmed.). The Obama campaign built and ran more than 200 applications on AWS, scaled to support millions of users, Barr reports. One of these apps — the campaign call tool — supported 7,000 concurrent users and placed over two million calls on the last four days of the campaign…
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