Explore the intricacies of hardware design for cloud-scale datacenters in this 47-minute conference talk from LISA14, presented by Kushagra Vaid of Microsoft. Gain insights into the exponential growth of cloud computing and its impact on application hosting in mega-scale public clouds like Microsoft Azure. Discover the challenges and solutions involved in designing and operating large infrastructures, including significant investments in datacenters, servers, networking, and operating systems. Learn about new paradigms for seamlessly integrating technologies and supply chains to drive higher efficiency and lower overall TCO. Benefit from Microsoft's vast experience in operating large-scale cloud services on an installed base of over 1 million servers, and understand how these learnings translate into architecture and operational principles for designing hardware infrastructure.