I work on storage at Amazon. Recovering Professor. Recovering entrepreneur. Father of three. Tinkerer. indirectbranch.com

Joined June 2009
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Andrew Warfield retweeted
For two decades, S3 has been an object store, but today it's something broader. S3 Files lets you mount any bucket as a filesystem—no copies, no sync scripts, no choosing between file and object. @andywarfield tells the full story, including the "filerectories" that almost made the cut. allthingsdistributed.com/202…
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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/202…
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Wish we'd thought of positioning it this way...
15 Nov 2024
OH SNAP new database just dropped
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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.
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I loved talking to Tim Anderson from the Register at re:Invent this year. It was a really fun conversation about a bunch of the S3 announcements. theregister.com/2023/12/12/t…
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Customers are very vocally asking us to bring S3 closer to their applications and to developer interactions with their data. Tim's article does a great job of talking about where the team is heading.
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I will say that I find the giant picture of me to be a little unnerving, but the article itself is great.
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Last week was re:Invent, this week I'm helping my dad build barn doors. #storage #builders
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Andrew Warfield retweeted
4 Dec 2023
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/… @andywarfield @Furrier #theCUBE #Supercloud5
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Almost time to talk about storage!
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This morning I'm coming to terms that it's been 20 years since we wrote the Xen paper. That sure went by fast!
29 Oct 2023
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/10.1145/94544… #award #HallOfFame
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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.
27 Jul 2023
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/202…
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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=sc3J4Mce…
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Andrew Warfield retweeted
1 Dec 2021
I linked to this paper in @LastWeekinAWS; it's a dense but excellent read.
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