How Amazon Web Services Uses Formal Methods.

The article discusses the use of formal specification and model checking by engineers at Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud computing platform offered by electronic commerce company Amazon.com, Inc., to help solve design problems in critical systems. Topics include AWS's use of distributed systems a...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 66 - 74
Autores principales: NEWCOMBE, CHRIS, RATH, TIM, FAN ZHANG, MUNTEANU, BOGDAN, BROOKER, MARC, DEARDEUFF, MICHAEL
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Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Apr2015
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          Architect, Oracle, Seattle, WA
          Principal engineer, AWS database services group, Amazon.com, Seattle, WA
          Software engineer and technical product and program manager, Cyanogen, Seattle, WA
          Software engineer, AWS S3, Amazon.com, Seattle, WA
          Software engineer, Dropbox
          Software engineer, AWS S3 Engines group, Amazon.com, Seattle, WA
          Principal engineer, AWS EC2, Amazon.com, Seattle, WA
          Software engineer, AWS database services group, Amazon.com, Seattle, WA
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        Computer specifications
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        Distributed computing
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      ab: The article discusses the use of formal specification and model checking by engineers at Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud computing platform offered by electronic commerce company Amazon.com, Inc., to help solve design problems in critical systems. Topics include AWS's use of distributed systems and cost-efficient infrastructure; the growth of Amazon's cloud computing services; and methods used to safeguard users' data. The use and modifications of fault-tolerant distributed algorithms is also explored.
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