Re:Amazon bares its computers
by colmmacc on Sunday November 17, 2013 @05:15PM
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Full-disclosure: I'm an engineer at Amazon Web Services.
"Mr. Hamilton later said privately that Amazon had developed original statistical methods to limit damage from catastrophic failures."
I don't think it's what James is referring to (as it's just the tip of the iceberg), but at Re:Invent we also released Infima - a library for service-level fault isolation and fault tolerance using Route 53 for endpoint discovery;
The techniques in Infima give some insight into how we think about multi-tenancy and availability, as well as provide a framework for building other services on top of EC2, Route 53 and so on.
"Mr. Hamilton later said privately that Amazon had developed original statistical methods to limit damage from catastrophic failures."
I don't think it's what James is referring to (as it's just the tip of the iceberg), but at Re:Invent we also released Infima - a library for service-level fault isolation and fault tolerance using Route 53 for endpoint discovery;
https://github.com/awslabs/route53-infima
The techniques in Infima give some insight into how we think about multi-tenancy and availability, as well as provide a framework for building other services on top of EC2, Route 53 and so on.