Werner Vogels

Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3

Three distinct perspectives on scale that come along with building and operating a storage system the size of S3.

Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS

Marc Olson, a long-time Amazonian, discusses the evolution of EBS, highlighting hard-won lessons in queueing theory, the importance of comprehensive instrumentation, and the value of incrementalism versus radical changes. It's an insightful look at how one of AWS’s foundational services has evolved to meet the needs…

S3 Files

Andy Warfield writes about the hard-won lessons dealing with data friction that lead to S3 Files

Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell

It is time to celebrate EC2-Classic, which defined early cloud computing, and which is finally retiring.

Monoliths are not dinosaurs

Building evolvable software systems is a strategy, not a religion. And revisiting your architectures with an open mind is a must.

Amazon’s distributed computing manifesto (1998)

Today, I am publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto, a canonical document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of Amazon's ecommerce platform. It highlights the challenges we were facing at the end of the 20th century, and hints at where we were headed.

In S3 simplicity is table stakes

From simple object storage to sophisticated table management, builders have always shaped S3's evolution. Andy Warfield discusses why making complex systems simple remains our north star at AWS.

Reinventing virtualization with the AWS Nitro System

Under the Hood of Amazon EC2 Container Service

In this post I explore the Amazon ECS architecture and what this architecture enables.

Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story

AWS Senior Principal Engineers, Niko Matsakis and Marc Bowes, take us inside Aurora DSQL's development: scaling write operations without two-phase commit, overcoming garbage collection hurdles, and embracing Rust for both data and control planes.

Diving Deep on S3 Consistency

A deep dive on why we changed Amazon S3's consistency model

A Decade of Dynamo

Today marks the 10-year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo. Here are some reflections on ten years of NoSQL databases

Amazon's Dynamo

In two weeks we’ll present a paper on the Dynamo technology at SOSP, the prestigious biannual Operating Systems conference. Dynamo is internal technology developed at Amazon to address the need for an incrementally scalable, highly-available key-value storage system. The technology is designed to give its users the…