Corrina Sivak on Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store [PWL Tokyo]

Corrina Sivak presents the seminal Dynamo paper from Amazon in Tokyo on April 30, 2026.

Paper: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf

This paper presents the design and implementation of Dynamo, a highly available key-value storage system that some of Amazon’s core services use to provide an “always-on” experience. To achieve this level of availability, Dynamo sacrifices consistency under certain failure scenarios. It makes extensive use of object versioning and application-assisted conflict resolution in a manner that provides a novel interface for developers to use.