Inside Amazon's Massive Data Center

Amazon Web Services is an unrivalled colossus of the internet age, providing the computational horsepower underpinning countless organizations from Netflix to BMW, Disney to GE, Tinder to the CIA. It earns tens of billions of dollars a year, and if you’ve used the internet at all lately, you’ve probably used Amazon Web Services without even knowing it.

But where is it? What is it? And how does it all work? Join us now as we enter the belly of the beast and take a sneak peek inside an AWS data centre.

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Inside Amazon's Massive Data Center

[Davidman]

"Inside Amazon's massive data center"

Shows tons of stock footage and not a single second of that data center.

[Tully]

A hunch tells me 90% of the video clips shown are not in AWS buildings.

[nickr]

I live near these data centers — they’re unmarked massive buildings with military-like permitters. Insane.

[sirkid]

I been inside a datacenter before, and let's just say there is no way in hell they are going to allow you to take pictures/videos inside it.

[huntercoleman]

7:37. Using images of Google's Cloud service in a video advertising AWS. Very nice.

[expensivetechnology]

Some of your stock footage is of a crypto mining operation. The guy wearing a jacket is in an Iceland Bitcoin mine.

[marksapollo]

I used to work for a major ISP and visited a few POP sites and they were just as secure, it was subtle but the more you looked at the buildings the more it shouted Go Away! Very impressive, very well laid out and planned too and every single aspect was run remotely.

[nathan]

Literally the definition of ‘fine, I’ll do it myself’

[Dannydrinkbottom]

Working at a data centre must be intense. No room for error whatsoever.

[majorcasualties]

As an AWS data center tech, those clips from inside the data center were hilarious.

[docmartens]

Wow just wow that is incredible I never knew they handle so much data! I knew they were big I just didn't know they were that big!

[Fedorcore]

"AWS built substations itelf" - This is actually incredibly commonplace amongst large business.

[boomer]

I was once shocked by the security of these data center's but then I did some learning and found the real reason for such high security. They are all interconnected. If a "bad" group where to take a data center covertly they would have complete access to every data center in the world and everything flow's though these places, credit card numbers, proprietary company information, internal e-mails and even classified government files can be in these centers and the interconnectivity can't be simply turned off at the flick of a switch so if someone did take over one of these centers they could steal tons of information from all over the world, info worth billions. Or they could drop a virus that would spread from the one center to the next and the next and cripple the whole internet.

[sparkcleanservices]

I also want to see a video of Google cloud infrastructure and azure infrastructure.

[phranklyn]

"AWS pays serious taxes here"

Aaaaand you lost me at that point

[casbox]

Imagine being a network engineer at aws and having to find out which cable is broken

[SuperR]

At 7:26 word written on a panel is in Russian, "заводская", how come in Amazon datacenter...

[larryliang]

there is no real footage from inside AWS data center. The title is a bit misleading.

[sasyafiraz]

every time i see part of this video, i'm just say in "wow, so amaze this AWS Data Center"
soo i think, definitely yes deserve to appreciation (reward)✨

[sammedsankonatti]

Animation was amazing, Its a huge mind blowing work about building and maintaining data centers such large size.