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		brey on Aug 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hour... nice thing about running crawlers from EC2 - all inbound bandwidth is free

zerop on Aug 11, 2012 [–]

Like running crawlers what can be some other use cases where free inbound is a blessing?

bigiain on Aug 11, 2012 | [–]

Backup/archive, where uploading data is frequent and downloading it is only very occasionally required.

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