2007/10/14 by Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani +6 · 19 citations
Computer Science · #Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies #Advanced Data Storage Technologies #Cloud Computing and Resource Management
paper · doi:10.1145/1294261.1294281
openalex publication_date 2007/10/14 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon.com, one of the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significant financial consequences and impacts customer trust. The Amazon.com platform, which provides services for many web sites worldwide, is implemented on top of an infrastructure of tens of thousands of servers and network components located in many datacenters around the world. At this scale, small and large components fail continuously and the way persistent state is managed in the face of these failures drives the reliability and scalability of the software systems.