Screaming in the Cloud · 2025-02-04 · 37 min
Andy Warfield joins Corey in this episode to discuss the evolution of storage technology at Amazon. This includes the evolution of S3 from archival storage to supporting modern AI and analytics. As Vice President and Distinguished Engineer at AWS, Andy is able to explain performance-enhancing innovations like S3 Tables and Common Runtime (CRT). On the other hand, challenges like compaction and namespace structuring are discussed. Reflecting on his journey from working on the Xen hypervisor to AWS, Andy shares insights into scaling S3, including buckets spanning millions of hard disks. Show Highlights (0:00) Intro (1:09) The Duckbill Group sponsor read (1:43) Andy’s background (3:38) How AWS envisioned services being used vs.
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