Amazon's initial architecture consisted of a single C/C++ binary and a large database, which was broken down into a service-oriented architecture to enable faster development and scaling.
Prime Day traffic, with DynamoDB handling 126 million requests per second, illustrates the need for reliability, which is achieved through the principles of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
IMDb migrated from a monolith to AWS Lambda, segmenting its workload into distinct microservices that are unified into a single API endpoint using GraphQL and a federated schema.
IMDb's backend uses a gateway-based architecture with a schema manager, where each microservice is fully owned and operated by a small, autonomous 'two-pizza team'.
To handle 800,000 requests per minute, IMDb uses AWS Lambda's auto-scaling capabilities and provisioned concurrency to keep functions warm and eliminate cold start latency.
IMDb improves reliability and performance by using AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) to block malicious bot traffic and Amazon CloudFront CDN to reduce latency for global users.
Amazon's fulfillment centers use a cell-based architecture to achieve fault isolation, ensuring that a failure in one cell does not impact the operations of others.
Cells are implemented as separate AWS accounts to create hard boundaries, and a custom tool assigns fulfillment centers to cells to maintain balanced resource distribution.
34:36Werner Vogels
50:06Jens Happe
30:03Marco Plaul & Martin Sakowski
25:18Raphael Manke
28:12Josip Stuhli
24:22Jürgen Pilz
27:08Modood Alvi
24:50Luca Mezzalira
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