Provides infrastructure layer compute capabilities, including both bare metal and virtual servers with various optimizations includins compute, memory, IO, and disk. Also supports accelerations options such as GPUs, FPGAs, Inferentia and Trainium.
Provides image recognition capability for images (in batch or real-time) and video that provides a analysis of the content such as real-world objects, faces, celebrities, and path mapping.
Provides a publish/subscribe notification service with multiple subscription types including Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, AWS Lambda, generic HTTPS endpoints, SMS and email.
A serverless, fully-managed, message queue service that supports producing, store, and consuming messages and enables loose coupling between applications.
Provides private networking capability spanning multiple availability zones and supporting subnets, routing, network access control groups, security groups and gateways.
Provides tracing of service invocations in distributed applications for observability, allowing users to diagnose issues or optimize their service interactions.
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James Hamilton at AWS re:Invent 2016
2016-12-09 / 327 words / 2 minutes
One of the highlights of AWS re:Invent 2016 was Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton. James Hamilton is a Vice President and Distinguished Engineer at amazon.com and specializes in infrastructure efficiency, reliability and scalability. The 90 minute presentation was full of details that most AWS employees never mention, even under strict non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
In additon, Tom Soderstrom, the IT Chief Technology Officer of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) discussed their insatiable need for storage and compute.
James Hamilton’s Tuesday Night Live Presentation
The presentation is below:
Highlights of the Tuesday Night Live Presentation
Global Network Details
A diagram of the AWS global network backbone, showing the redundant 100GbE network links.
Amazon are installing a 14,000km link between Oregon, Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand consisting of 3 fibre pairs supporting 100 waves at 100G
All new AWS Regions would consist of at least 3, and as many as 5 Availability Zones
AWS Region Details
Details of the networking used within an AWS Region
Some Amazon Availability Zones consists of as many as 8 physical datacenters and over 300,000 physical servers.
AWS was the first company to deploy 3,456 fibre count cable.
An explanation that AWS runs 25-32MW datacenters with 50,000-80,000 servers, rather than more cost effective 60-120MW datacenters because it limits the blast radius and allows other datacenters to pickup the load.
AWS Networking Details
Discussion of 25GbE routers, rather than the 10GbE and 40GbE technology. 40GbE is really just 4 sets of 10GbE cables, so 25GbE is more dense.
Details of the Annapurna ASIC which powers AWS network equipment in 2016.
Details of the electrical switchgear providing uninterruptible power support to AWS datacenters.
Cool New Technologies
Examples of various generations of storage racks, and servers.
Discussions of machine learning and the mxnet programming framework.
Announcement of the P2 instance type with upto 40,000 CUDA cores.
The presentation also mentioned an InfoSys Mainframe Migration solution and predicted the death of the mainframe. It is well worth watching.
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