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Joe Hellerstein predicts that Hydro can be retrofitted into Amazon systems to provide correctness guarantees without sacrificing performance.

On Software Engineering Daily · unverified speaker · Software Engineering Daily · Sep 10, 2026

“at Amazon, I can remove that objection. We can work with colleagues here at Amazon, retrofit systems that the world relies on with hydro, show that it gives correctness guarantees that the previous code did not and does not give up performance.”

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AWS successfully retrofits at least one major production system with Hydro and demonstrates equivalent or better performance with improved correctness guarantees.

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