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AWS re:Invent 2014 | (SPOT302) Under the Covers of AWS: Its Core Distributed Systems
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An AWS re:Invent 2014 talk on the core distributed systems primitives behind AWS and Amazon.com, such as consensus, key-value stores and transactional logging. It describes how AWS builds large services from a few common building blocks.
HN points to it as insight into how AWS thinks about distributed systems and the difficulty of consensus.
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