How Amazon S3 works (w/ Andy Warfield)

About this episode

Tristan interviews Andy Warfield about the workings of Amazon S3 and its impact on cloud data.

In this season of the Analytics Engineering podcast, Tristan is deep into the world of developer tools and databases. If you're following us here, you've almost definitely used Amazon S3 it and its Blob Storage siblings. They form the foundation for nearly all data work in the cloud. In many ways, it was the innovations that happened inside of S3 that have unlocked all of the progress in cloud data over the last decade. In this episode, Tristan talks with Andy Warfield, VP and senior principal engineer at AWS, where he focuses primarily on storage. They go deep on S3, how it works, and what it unlocks. They close out italking about Iceberg, S3 table buckets, and what this all suggests about the outlines of the S3 product roadmap moving forward. For full show notes and to read 6+ years of back issues of the podcast's companion newsletter, head to https://roundup.getdbt.com . The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs.

People in this episode

Host: Tristan

Guest: Andy Warfield

Topics covered

• Amazon S3
• cloud storage
• data engineering
• developer tools
• data work

Keywords

• Amazon S3
• cloud data
• storage
• Iceberg
• data engineering
• developer tools

Sponsors

dbt Labs

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AWS

Products: Amazon S3, Iceberg

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