AWS Simple Storage Service, Elastic Block Store and SimpleDB derive their basic architecture from unique Amazon technologies.
Mixed Partly true and partly false in roughly equal measure.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
The second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.
The evidence is the person's or their organisation's own records.
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
True: Amazon or AWS technical sources up to 2011 show that the basic architectures of all three services (S3, EBS and SimpleDB) came from technologies Amazon developed itself, such as Dynamo-related designs, rather than from off-the-shelf outside systems. Mostly true: this is shown for two of the three, and the third is plausibly internal but less well documented. Mixed: this is shown for only one of the three, or the evidence conflicts. Mostly false: the services mainly rest on standard outside technologies, with only minor internal parts. False: the evidence shows none of the three came from unique Amazon technologies.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (4)
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E1 Amazon's Dynamo All Things Distributed (Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO blog) · 2 October 2007 Own record
“Dynamo and similar Amazon technologies are used to power parts of our Amazon Web Services, such as S3.”
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E2 The deceptively simple origins of AWS Amazon (aboutamazon.com) · 17 March 2021 Own record
“What they landed on was a completely new system that used "objects," "buckets," and "keys" to offer secure internet storage that developers could actually use and afford at $0.15 per gigabyte of storage per month”
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E3 Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS All Things Distributed (AWS engineer Marc Olson's post) · 22 August 2024 Own record
“EBS launched on August 20, 2008, nearly two years after EC2 became available in beta, with a simple idea to provide network attached block storage for EC2 instances.”
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E4 Amazon EBS addresses the challenge of the CAP Theorem at scale Amazon Science · 14 February 2020 Own record
“we describe an EBS-specialized data store we call Physalia, which helps AWS data centers recover from communications interruptions, with minimal customer impact.”
Reasoning
E1 is a 2007 post by Amazon's CTO, an Amazon technical source from before 2011. It says Dynamo and similar Amazon technologies power parts of S3, which supports an internal origin for S3. E2 also describes S3 as a completely new system, though it was published in 2021. For EBS, E3 and E4 give only the launch date and a later internal data store (Physalia), not where its original architecture came from. None of the evidence covers SimpleDB. The criteria treat support for only one of the three services as mixed.
Cite this claim
Jeff Bezos, “AWS Simple Storage Service, Elastic Block Store and SimpleDB derive their basic architecture from unique Amazon technologies.” (said 2011). Verdict: mixed. Reliability API, claim c_3bccb04524c6, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_3bccb04524c6
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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