Amazon - the case study

Boards

• The Map
• The Memo That Became a Business
• The Cart That Cannot Say No
• Blast Radius
• The Coffee Urn
• Eleven Nines
• Chaotic Storage
• The Typo That Broke the Internet
• Everything

The nine boards on one canvas, and the story below runs through them in the order Amazon hit each problem.

Before you start. Amazon is two businesses sharing one set of machines: the shop you buy from, and AWS, which rents storage and computers to everybody else. All you need to bring is this: a big website runs on thousands of machines, and any one of them can die at any second without warning.