AWS re:Invent 2016: Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton

Why HN readers recommended it

HN treats Hamilton's annual talks as the best window into how AWS regions and hardware are actually built.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Amazon Web Services

Topic

cloud infrastructure

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• The keynote by James Hamilton[1] is absolutely awesome. You can genuinely tell that James finds all this technology fascinating. He talks about fiber, networking, power, redundancy, scale all with utter enthusiasm. [1] [VIDEO]

• Others have answered, but I think the general principle for a Region is that between the AZs you have less than 1ms latency, physical separation between the data centers, but they may still be in the same floodplain, be able to be hit by the …

• 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), [LINK] [1] Tuesday Night Live (2016), [VIDEO] [2] Operation of the AWS Global Network (2019), [LINK] [3] Foundations of AWS Infrastructure …