Inside Amazon's Cloud Computing Infrastructure

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @11:33AM from the behind-the-curtain dept.

1sockchuck writes: As Sunday's outage demonstrates, the Amazon Web Services cloud is critical to many of its more than 1 million customers. Data Center Frontier looks at Amazon's cloud infrastructure, and how it builds its data centers. The company's global network includes at least 30 data centers, each typically housing 50,000 to 80,000 servers. "We really like to keep the size to less than 100,000 servers per data center," said Amazon CTO Werner Vogels. Like Google and Facebook, Amazon also builds its own custom server, storage and networking hardware, working with Intel to produce processors that can run at higher clockrates than off-the-shelf gear.

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What Does This Mean by Frosty+Piss · 2015-09-23 11:37 · Score: 4, Interesting

working with Intel to produce processors that can run at higher clockrates than off-the-shelf gear.
What does this mean? They have custom chips? Custom mods at the chip fab level? Or are they taking advantage of designed-in features that are locked out for normal chip users? Are they simply over-clocking? Or are there features that can be unlocked with money?

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1. Re:What Does This Mean by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-23 11:47 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  They must get chips that have been tested for overclocking.