ENT337: How Amazon Scales Its Infrastructure to Handle Billions of Transactions on Prime Day

Prime Day is Amazon's global shopping event exclusively for Amazon Prime members, offering great deals, events, and exclusive content. Running an event of this magnitude on the AWS Cloud offers many unique challenges. The Infrastructure Readiness Team for Prime Day 2017 focused on helping Amazon teams realize operational and executional efficiencies so they could reduce costs and ensure event readiness. Join us for an overview and Q&A of lessons learned from our largest event, including event readiness, how to support infrastructure events at scale, communication planning, building escalation paths with unknown issues, and more.