# Examining the covidtests.gov architecture - Ad Hoc

<https://adhoc.team/2022/01/18/covidtests-usps-aws-managed-services/>

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## What Jamie wrote

How do you design a site that millions of people are going to go to and submit a request on the same day? Keep it simple, stupid. This article highlights the very good design decisions, and solutions involved, to let everyone in the US order free COVID tests.

> This is a very common overall design in the modern web services stack; nothing out of the ordinary here. Indeed, the relative “boringness” of the architecture and seeking managed services from ISPs like AWS and Akamai, who are proven at the largest scales, was likely a desired aspect of this implementation.

Well done. 🙌

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