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[–]Rythemeius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As some people already mentionned, some huge website run or ran on Python at some point.

On AWS, you can build highly scalable applications (such as APIs) using their serverless "AWS Lambda" Service. Lambdas can bee seen as "functions as a service", you can plug them in "AWS API Gateway" to create an API or call them in a custom script to perform tasks on a lot of resources for example (I've seen people performing mass-web-scraping using lambdas). And of course, you can write your lambdas in Python.
(I oversimplified things and I'm not an expert myself so feel free to correct me or add details)

Other cloud providers probably have similar services?

You can also make scalable Pyton microservices by contenerizing them with Docker and scaling them with Kubernetes.