Edit: Juan Domenech[1] has a small custom made component pallet in png form. And, it looks like the original diagrams are custom Adobe Illustrator drawings[2].
[0] http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/
[1] http://blog.domenech.org/2012/06/aws-diagrams-palette-v10.ht...
For others outside the US confused about what the application actually does, and what the Narwhal in the testing/staging pictures refers to, this helped; http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/built-...
I would guess testing is a skeleton version of the entire deployment so the cost is minimal and just need to test new deploys and verification for tests.
Staging probably wasn't a full mirror, at best I would venture to guess they had hot swaps coming up in staging and then being switched against production via ELBs.
They mention costs a few times in articles, so I would venture to guess they did optimize around many of those corners.
I wonder how hard (I'm thinking hard?) it would be to have a tool for something like this, making the layout easy and revealing more and more information as you zoom in.
Even better if it was live and updating with system metrics.
I would like to see one where the labels are clearer. It doesn't seem like the 3D perspective adds any clarity.
But looking at this diagram, I'm pleased to see that engineering was a big part of the Obama campaign. It really hammers home how badly out of their league Romney's TechOps team was.
OFA is awesome for releasing this. Hopefully next will be some of our codes and projects.
You are materially responsible for the re-election of someone who commits large-scale crime (in the form of blatantly unconstitutional surveillance of Americans under no suspicion of criminal activity).
Please reconsider your choices. You are working for the wrong side.
Which side should he be working for that doesn't do any of that?
