Greenwater, Washington: an Availability Story Summary Marc Brooker discusses defining and designing for availability that takes people into account, including examples of massive-scale cloud systems designed using these principles. Bio Marc Brooker is a Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services, currently focussed on database services. He’s been at AWS for 12 years, and has worked on EC2, EBS, Lambda, and IoT. He’s interested in distributed systems, databases, serverless, and economics. Marc has a PhD in EE from the University of Cape Town. About the conference QCon Plus is a virtu...