LAS VEGAS – Amazon Web Services operates at huge scale – in Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant the research firm estimated AWS’s capacity at five times larger than the company’s next 14 competitors combined.

The cloud has 11 regions around the world made up of 28 availability zones, each of which has at least one data center and each data center has between 50,000 and 80,000 servers. Every day AWS adds enough new capacity to its cloud to power the needs of Amazon.com in 2004 when it was a $7 billion revenue company.

And there was one thing AWS Vice President and Distinguished Engineer James Hamilton was worried would slow the whole thing down: the network.

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