About two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking at Amazon’s AWS Summit 2014. During Andy Jassy’s keynote presentation, I discussed how we use Amazon Web Services in an efficient, performant, and cost-effective way. When people think of Flipboard, what most often comes to mind is our application design – the beautiful, flippable reading experience millions of readers enjoy every day. What’s less well known is all of the data and serving architecture that goes into delivering that beautiful experience and ensuring it’s fast. The following presentation just touches on the basics of what we do within AWS. To deliver you a personalized, fast, and beautiful experience, our architecture scales to thousands of nodes and petabytes of data.