Why WebSockets don’t scale easily — and how AWS changes the game
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Last Updated on July 6, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): Leapfrog Technology Originally published on Towards AI. WebSockets are deceptively simple. Every connected user maintains a persistent connection to the server, and each connection continuously occupies server resources such as memory, CPU cycles, network buffers, and application state. Unlike traditional HTTP requests, WebSocket connections are long-lived and stateful, meaning resource consumption grows almost linearly with the number of
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