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Amazon Elastic Block Store at 15 Years
Just after joining Amazon Web Services in 2009, I met with Andrew Certain, at that time a ...
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Great Product Managers
One of the Amazon Operations teams was hosting a conference for Product Managers in their ...
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HPTS 2022
High Performance Transactions System (HPTS) is a invitational conference held once every two ...
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2022 NAE Frontiers of Engineering
I introduced the 2022 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering conference on ...
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A Short History of AWS Silicon Innovation
Why would a cloud services company design and deploy custom semiconductors? It definitely ...
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Graviton3 & EC2 C7g General Availability
Today we’re making the AWS Graviton3 processor generally available in the AWS EC2 C7g ...
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Xen-on-Nitro: AWS Nitro for Legacy Instances
On August 25, 2006, we started the public beta of our first ever EC2 instance. Back then, it ...
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Happy 15th Birthday EC2!
August 25th, 2021 marks the 15-year anniversary for EC2. Contemplating the anniversary has me ...
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Tesla Project Dojo Overview
A couple of days back, Ganesh Venkataramanan, leader of the Tesla Dojo project, announced the ...
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Reinventing Operational Resiliency
The cloud helps organizations achieve unmatched resiliency at scale. This is a quick write-up I ...
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Human Race Priorities?
I was recently in a super interesting discussion mostly focused on energy efficiency and, as ...
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How Complex Systems Fail
This is a simple little article that’s worth reading. I don’t agree with every ...
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Anandtech on AWS Graviton2
Yesterday, Anandtech published what is, by far, the most detailed write-up on the AWS ...
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AWS Graviton2
In November of last year, AWS announced the first ARM-based AWS instance type (AWS Designed ...
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2019 SIGMOD Systems Award
At SIGMOD 2019 in Amsterdam last month it was announced that the Amazon Aurora service has been ...
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2019 ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award
Back in late 2008 and early 2009, I had a few projects underway. One was investigating the ...