Andrew Warfield
@andywarfield
I work on storage at Amazon. Recovering Professor. Recovering entrepreneur. Father of three. Tinkerer. http://indirectbranch.com
Last week was re:Invent, this week I'm helping my dad build barn doors. #storage #builders
Some thoughts on the S3 Vectors preview launch this week. This one has been really fun to build, and it's exciting to be able to finally share it! linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…
Today is #PiDay. I wrote an article for @Werner's blog about how important the idea of simplicity is in S3 and reflect on some examples of how simplicity has influenced S3's design over almost two decades. allthingsdistributed.com/2025/03/in-s3-…
Really fun post from Werner and team about building with rust, media summarization, and the importance (and enjoyment!) of tinkering in systems. Great read. allthingsdistributed.com/2024/06/introd…
Hey @lookbindings, I absolutely loved my pivot 360s. Right until the metal snapped and turned them into a sharp edge attached to my ski as I fell down the run.
Deets on the latest S3news for 10x latency reduction ⚡#reInvent recaps. Andy Warfield discusses S3 Express One Zone, @amazon’s solution for more responsive data interactions. 📰 More: siliconangle.com/2023/11/30/ama… @andywarfield @Furrier #theCUBE #Supercloud5
I am so excited at our launch of S3 Express One Zone. This product has been an incredible amount of really innovative work from an incredible team and it's wonderful to finally be able to share it with customers! aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-…
This morning I'm coming to terms that it's been 20 years since we wrote the Xen paper. That sure went by fast!
The 2023 @ACMSIGOPS Hall of Fame award goes to the authors of the paper “Xen and the Art of Virtualization”. The paper was presented at @sospconf 2003. Congratulations to the authors! The award was announced at @sospconf #sosp2023 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/94… #award #HallOfFame
Werner asked me to put together a written version of some of the material from the FAST talk that I did earlier this year. The article is up this morning on #allthingsdistributed.
Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 – A unique perspective by #AWS Distinguished Engineer @andywarfield on what it means to scale systems, yourself and others. #allthingsdistributed #S3 allthingsdistributed.com/2023/07/buildi…
Here's a neat thing that we released today. aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/… github.com/awslabs/mountp…
I got to give a talk at FAST about how hard drives work, how millions of hard drives work, how an organization with millions of hard drives works, and then a little about how i work in an organization with millions of hard drives. youtube.com/watch?v=sc3J4M…
Tens of thousands of S3 customers have buckets that are spread over a million drives or more!
Very cool to see TLA+, P, and Dafny code on the keynote stage at AWS re:Invent.