Fork Around And Find Out Recovering from Disaster with Seth Eliot
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Apr 11, 2025 In this engaging conversation, disaster recovery expert Seth Eliot shares his wealth of experience from RPO and his 15 years at Amazon. He highlights the essential role of manual processes in disaster recovery, beyond just automation. Seth discusses the complexities of transitioning to cloud services, including high availability versus disaster recovery, and the importance of documentation. He also delves into strategies for navigating cyber threats and the need for resilient systems, emphasizing the value of community support and educational resources in tech.
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Bookshelf Bureaucracy
- Seth Elliott had to jump through hoops to get a bookshelf at Amazon in 2005.
- This highlights Amazon's scrappy, cost-conscious culture at the time.
Present Wrapping
- Amazon used to ask office workers to wrap presents at fulfillment centers during Christmas.
- This further emphasizes Amazon's scrappy nature during its earlier years.
Internal AWS Nicknames
- The "lift and shift" of Amazon.com to AWS was internally called MAWS (Move to AWS).
- A subsequent program, Native AWS (NAWS), was nicknamed NOS, despite sounding like MAWS.