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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

But every year when March 14th comes around, it's a good reminder that Amazon S3 originally launched on Pi Day, March 14, 2006. A concept that has changed infrastructure architecture is now at the core of both AWS and customer reliability and operations. " Silo your traffic or not – you choose.

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Proposal for a Realtime Carbon Footprint Standard

Adrian Cockcroft

At the instance level, many CPU and system architectures have direct access to power consumption metrics. Clock rates also change, some ARM architectures include a mixture of high performance and low power cores in the same CPU, and Intel architecture CPUs have hyperthreading, so the performance of an execution thread will vary over time.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. The expectation was that with each order or two of magnitude, we would need to revisit and revise the architecture to make sure we could address the issues of scale. Each of those workloads have unique requirements when it comes to the network.

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