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AWS re:Invent 2014: AWS Innovation at Scale with James Hamilton (SPOT301)

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  • Presented by James Hamilton, VP and Distinguished Engineer at AWS
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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

69K views11 years ago2 recommendations

Cloud and DevOpsDistributed systemsAWSScaling and large-scale architectureNetworking and protocols

James Hamilton shares an insider view of the infrastructure innovations powering AWS, covering custom hardware, networking, and availability zones.

Watch James Hamilton, VP, give an insider view of some the innovations that help make the AWS cloud unique. Walk away with a deeper understanding of the underlying innovations powering the cloud. Learn More on AWS: amzn.to/2hZHDZf

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What people say. Recommended for its clear explanation of AWS infrastructure scale, networking, and the definition of availability zones.

MrZipfon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Introducing “6-pack”: the first open hardware modular switch”

This looks great. They also have the advantage that James Hamilton mentioned AMZ got from building their own hardware - the get to do a cleansheet s/w design and not have to support all the gazillion options that Cisco does. The talk was on HN a little while ago, worth watching: link to this video The scale at FB means they're probably saving hundreds of millions doing this.
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On “An AWS Region is coming to France”

James Hamilton gives a good talk that goes over networking (and more). This is it from reinvent 2014. link to this video
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nandemoon Hacker News • Mentions

On “A peek at the massive scale of AWS”

> This suggests to me that running distributed databases in multiple AZ's has almost no latency penalty (e.g. you won't even paying eventual consistency / replication lag taxes that you might think are a danger). Yes, Hamilton points that out in his talk: link to this video
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Twirrimon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Backblaze Storage Pod 5.0”

Around about here in the talk: link to this video James Hamilton talks precisely what the definitions of AZs and regions are :)
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On “New P2 Instance Type for Amazon EC2 – Up to 16 GPUs”

link to this video I think this is the right talk by him, but there's one where he implies some differences. For instance, that because they can promise exact temperature ranges they can clock them differently. My guess is same fab, just binned differently, or maybe different packaging.
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On “Now Open – AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region”

James Hamilton 01 and others 234 have given pretty good overview over the years of the AWS infrastructure. 0 AWS Innovation at Scale (2014), link to this video 1 Tuesday Night Live (2016), link 2 Operation of the AWS Global Network (2019), link 3 Foundations of AWS Infrastructure (2018), link 4 Exploring the AWS Global Network (2018), link
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