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How do the amazon web services work?

What information have you been able to gather regarding how do the amazon web services work?

  • What hardware do they use
  • What web server
  • What Operating System
  • What storage for AWS
  • What virtualization software for EC2/EBS
  • What software for they distributed firewall for EC2
  • Physical location of their data centers.

I like their services very much and use them a ton at work... just out of curiosity. If you know/heard/read and want to tell, if you saw something online and want to provide a link, very appreciated.

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flybywire Avatar asked Mar 08 '09 16:03

flybywire


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This might be interesting: http://highscalability.com/amazon-architecture

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tarn Avatar answered Oct 12 '22 01:10

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