Lengthy-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: AWS provided A Look Contained in the Making of an NFL Soccer Schedule together with Thursday’s launch of the 2023 NFL Schedule Powered by AWS. AWS notes that producing the schedule required the usage of 4,000+ AWS EC2 Spot Situations. An AWS promotional video claims they “saved the NFL an estimated $2 million every season” by leveraging AWS Spot Situations for a reduction of as much as 90% off in comparison with AWS On-Demand pricing..
“In simply three months,” AWS explains, “Nationwide Soccer League (NFL) schedule makers methodically construct an thrilling 18 week 272-game schedule spanning 576 attainable sport home windows.” Up till 10 years in the past, AWS notes in an accompanying infographic, the NFL used a white-boarding course of to manually craft its schedule.
To not diminish the NFL’s and AWS’s 2023 scheduling achievement, however the 2013 documentary The Schedule Makers advised the outstanding story of the husband-and-wife duo of Henry and Holly Stephenson, who for nearly 1 / 4 of a century within the pre-Cloud period managed the scheduling for 30 Main League Baseball (MLB) groups who every performed 162 common season video games a 12 months. In line with the Could 1985 Atari Compendium (pg. 38), the Stephensons have been utilizing a self-written program operating on a 64K IMS-8000 to assist schedule video games for the MLB (2,106 video games over a 6-month season), NBA, and NASL/MISL (defunct soccer leagues). So maybe the NFL’s declare that “There isn’t any method the NFL might ship the standard of schedule that we put out yearly for our followers and tv companions with out the contributions of our mates at AWS” needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
