How do the amazon web services work?

Question

What information have you been able to gather regarding how do the amazon web services work?

• What hardware do they use
• What web server
• What Operating System
• What storage for AWS
• What virtualization software for EC2/EBS
• What software for they distributed firewall for EC2
• Physical location of their data centers.

I like their services very much and use them a ton at work... just out of curiosity. If you know/heard/read and want to tell, if you saw something online and want to provide a link, very appreciated.

Answer 1

This might be interesting: http://highscalability.com/amazon-architecture