Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.
We previously detailed the test architecture that NASA built to ensure the live stream of the Curiosity landing could handle traffic, and now Amazon Web Services is showing what the final architecture looked like. NASA scaled up its test build and monitored traffic in real time.

On Sunday, I detailed the test architecture NASA built on Amazon Web Services to ensure it could handle the anticipated traffic for the live stream of Mars rover Curiosity. The team suggested it would scale up the actual production architecture to handle, and indeed it did...