THE VIDEO SHELF · cloud infrastructure at scale
AWS re:Invent 2014: AWS Innovation at Scale with James Hamilton (SPOT301)
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as an authoritative overview of AWS infrastructure, including what AZs and regions really mean.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Amazon Web Services
- Topic
- cloud infrastructure at scale
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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 …
MrZipf on Hacker News · 2015-02
In Introducing “6-pack”: the first open hardware modular switchJames Hamilton gives a good talk that goes over networking (and more). This is it from reinvent 2014. [VIDEO]
dastbe on Hacker News · 2016-09
In An AWS Region is coming to France
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