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Amazon Takes Another Step Towards The Web OS With Dynamo
By xaby | October 5, 2007
Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels just released a very technical paper about a Web storage system being tested internally at Amazon called Dynamo. As applications move to massive grids of computers on the Web (like the ones that power Amazon’s e-commerce site or Google’s search engine and online apps), a new type of Web operating system is developing that treats all of those connected servers as one big computer. (Engineering types can download a PDF of the paper or read it online at the Dynamo link above).Dynamo is not an alternative to S3, Amazon’s publicly-available data storage service, or competing Web hosting/storage services like Nirvanix and Flexiscale. There are no plans at this point to offer Dynamo as a Web Service. It is an internal-only project that sounds like a rethinking of what a relational database should be when computing scales to massive Web proportions (i.e., systems running on tens of thousands of computers).
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