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

Amazon Web Services · 69.7K views · 2014-11-18 · 47:51

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Overview

James Hamilton, AWS VP and distinguished engineer, gives an insider view of the innovations behind the AWS cloud at re:Invent 2014. He covers custom hardware, networking, regions and availability zones, and infrastructure at scale.

On Hacker News

HN points to it as an authoritative overview of AWS infrastructure, including what AZs and regions really mean.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2014–2020

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Cloud, DevOps & reliabilityDistributed systemsNetworking & internet infrastructure
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dastbe · 2016-09 · Recommendation

James Hamilton gives a good talk that goes over networking (and more). This is it from reinvent 2014. [VIDEO]

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MrZipf · 2015-02 · Recommendation

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: [VIDEO] The scale at FB means they're probably saving hundreds of millions doing this.

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ignoramous · 2020-04 · Reference

James Hamilton [0][1] and others [2][3][4] have given pretty good overview over the years of the AWS infrastructure. [0] AWS Innovation at Scale (2014), [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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