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Amazon.com’s Journey to the Cloud [video]
- lnmx 14y agoI watched this over lunch and found it really interesting. Particularly: * History of the retail site, early architecture. Originally ran on DEC hardware. * How the retail side began to adopt AWS services for internal projects, non-critical features. * Some details about their continuous deployment infrastructure (Apollo). "How would you manage deployment if you had infinite capacity?" New versions are stood up on clusters of new instances; the old instances are kept around for a while to allow for fast rollback. * As of November 2010, all front-end webservers run on EC2. * Scaling costs: "The cumulative amount of data stored predicts long-term hardware spend more accurately than transactions per second" Slides: http://qconsf.com/dl/qcon-sanfran-2011/slides/JohnRauser_RearchitectingAmazonComForTheCloud.pdf http://qconsf.com/dl/qcon-sanfran-2011/slides/JohnRauser_Rea...