All Things Distributed

A GPU burns 700 watts and hundreds of thousands of tries to learn Pong.

In this post, Andy Warfield explains how databases like DuckDB are enabling a new way to build with data, why they matter right now, and how they complement the work we’ve been doing in S3 (e.g., S3 Files, S3 Tables, S3 Vectors).

Zak van der Merwe has spent his entire career at AWS building control planes.

Today, we're releasing the second season of the Now Go Build documentary series.

What made the Quick desktop team successful is the same thing that has always produced the best work I've seen at Amazon: a small group of people who trusted each other, owned the problem end-to-end, and acted on their conviction.

The subtle inventiveness that reduced cold start setup from seconds to 200μs.

Andy Warfield writes about the hard-won lessons dealing with data friction that lead to S3 Files

Over the past decade, Byron's team has proven the correctness of our authorization engine, our cryptographic implementations, and our virtualization layer.

Today, I’m honored to introduce you to the latest cohort of Now Go Build CTO Fellows.

Fear is actually a pretty good signal that you are pushing into the unknown, that real growth doesn’t happen without a bit of that associated discomfort, and that it’s worth becoming aware when it happens.