AWS Core Distributed Systems: Consensus, Storage and Logging
Amazon Web Services · Talk · 46 min · 2014 · YouTube title: AWS re:Invent 2014 | (SPOT302) Under the Covers of AWS: Its Core Distributed Systems
Why it's here
HN points to it as insight into how AWS thinks about distributed systems and the difficulty of consensus.
What it covers
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.