A Head in the Cloud: The Power of Infrastructure as a Service

April 23, 2008 lecture by Dr. Werner Vogels for the Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium (EE380).

This presentation reviews some of the lessons learned from building one of the world's largest distributed systems; Amazon.com. Dr. Vogels focuses on state management which is one of the dominating factors in the scalability, reliability, performance and cost-effectiveness of the overall system.

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