Hardware Podcasts

Ep. 40 | AWS VP of Engineering Wayne Duso on Managing ⅓ of the Internet's Cloud Storage

Moore's Lobby · 21 Dec 2021 · 1h 01m · Episode 13

What this episode covers

Wayne Duso, VP of Engineering at Amazon Web Services (AWS), discusses the evolution of cloud storage and the engineering challenges behind managing a third of the internet's infrastructure. He recounts his career path from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and EMC to AWS, explaining how AWS originated from internal needs to build scalable microservices rather than spare capacity. Duso details AWS's response to the Log4j security vulnerability, the company's 'working backwards' philosophy, and the critical role of hardware engineers in supporting software-defined cloud services.

Most relevant to

large enterprises

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Amazon Web Services, Digital Equipment Corporation, EMC, VMware, Netflix, Twitch, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, NetApp, Cisco, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Rome, Renesas
Products
Snowball Edge, Starlink
Chips
Graviton, Tranium
Also
Log4j

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