Read "Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store" and then research Amazon's in-house relational database AWS. Consider some of the following...

Read "Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store" and then research Amazon's in-house relational database AWS.

Consider some of the following questions.

• How does Amazon approach its database solution?
• Why did Amazon develop its own database solution?
• How important is reliability to Amazon, and what challenges do they face?
• What is Dynamo? What techniques does it involve?
• How does Dynamo handle failure? Does it rely on redundancy?
• What are your personal experiences with Amazon's reliability?