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James Hamilton on his boat, Dirona, docked at the Wakiki Yacht Club in Honolulu, Hawaii. Photo: Kent Nishimura/WiredOn a rainy Monday in August 2011, a 10-million-watt transformer exploded in northern Virginia, sending an enormous voltage spike across the power grid. The surge hit an Amazon data center in Ashburn, Virginia, knocking out the facility’s main source of power, and about 15 minutes later, James Hamilton just happened to pull into the parking lot.It was a serendipitous moment. Hamilton is the Distinguished Engineer who oversees the increasingly complex design of the data-center empire that drives Amazon Web Services, or AWS — the nothing-
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Werner Vogels
'Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire" great profile of James Hamilton in @wired #AWS http://t.co/EZaMfRFJ
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Bernard Golden
Interesting piece on James Hamilton of #aws. The future of data centers: http://t.co/Cf6Wkkbm
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swardley
RT @Werner: 'Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire" great profile of James Hamilton in @wired #AWS http://t.co/EZaMfRFJ
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George V. Hulme
RT @bernardgolden: Interesting piece on James Hamilton of #aws. The future of data centers: http://t.co/Cf6Wkkbm
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Pavan Yara
RT @Werner: 'Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire" great profile of James Hamilton in @wired #AWS http://t.co/EZaMfRFJ
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CloudHarmony
Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire | Wired Enterprise | http://t.co/Msw67xr3 http://t.co/LahnpVej
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Reuven Cohen
Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire http://t.co/4w5lTBYv < great post.
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Vanessa Alvarez
Have had the pleasure of 1:1 time w/ James Hamilton, truly one of the best in the industry http://t.co/4o15mT3B via @mdesilver #AWS
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The Cloud Network
Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire: Why Amazon Prime Could Soon Cost ... http://t.co/OsTNco3sV9 #amazon #cloud #TCN
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ChrisFleck
Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire | Wired Enterprise | http://t.co/p51wlacc http://t.co/vVSLDyzA
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Ben Reid
"Broad AND Deep" - great profile of AWS data centre architect James Hamilton from @bobmcmillan in Wired http://t.co/1puFsuUc
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Staten7
RT @Werner: 'Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire" great profile of James Hamilton in @wired #AWS http://t.co/EZaMfRFJ
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Justin Pirie
Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire | Wired Enterprise http://t.co/oibBgdBw
