{"id":10502,"date":"2015-01-17T13:33:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T18:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10502"},"modified":"2015-01-17T13:33:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T18:33:53","slug":"the-stunning-scale-of-aws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/17\/the-stunning-scale-of-aws\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stunning Scale of AWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/highscalability.com\/blog\/2015\/1\/12\/the-stunning-scale-of-aws-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-o.html\">Todd Hoff<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevesi\/status\/555462832645349376\">Steven Sinofsky<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8875549\">comments<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/highscalability.com\/blog\/2015\/1\/12\/the-stunning-scale-of-aws-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-o.html\"><p>All 14 other cloud providers combined have 1\/5th the aggregate capacity of AWS (estimate by Gartner in 2013)<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The cost of networking is escalating relative the cost of all other equipment. It&rsquo;s anti-Moore&rsquo;s law. All other gear is going down in cost, networking is getting relatively more expensive over time. Relative monthly costs: servers: 57%; networking equipment: 8%; power distribution and cooling: 18%; power: 13%; other: 4%.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Amazon&rsquo;s solution 5 years ago was data driven and radical: they built to their own networking designs. Special routers were built. A team was hired to build the protocol stack all the way to the top. And they deployed all this themselves in their network. All services worldwide run on this gear. [&#8230;]  source of the improvement was simplicity. The problem AWS was trying to solve was simpler than the problem enterprise gear tries to solve. Enterprise gear must adhere to a lot of complicated specs that go unused and only make the system more fragile. By implementing just the functionality that was required meant a much simpler system which lead to higher availability.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Hoff (via Steven Sinofsky, comments): All 14 other cloud providers combined have 1\/5th the aggregate capacity of AWS (estimate by Gartner in 2013) [&#8230;] The cost of networking is escalating relative the cost of all other equipment. It&rsquo;s anti-Moore&rsquo;s law. All other gear is going down in cost, networking is getting relatively more expensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,672,96,50],"class_list":["post-10502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-web-services","tag-web","tag-webapi"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10503,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502\/revisions\/10503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}