Just after joining Amazon Web Services in 2009, I met with Andrew Certain, at that time a senior engineer on the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) team, to get into the details on how EBS was implemented and what plans were looking forward. Andrew took me through the details of this remote block storage solution and two things were immediately clear to me: 1) there was work yet to be done to address the most demanding workloads, and 2) the overall opportunity for EBS was massive. Having...
