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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

Yesterday, AWS evangelist Jeff Barr wrote that AWS will be opening a region in South Korea in early 2016 that will be our 5th region in Asia Pacific. The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017).

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in France! Over the past 10 years, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS. As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide. As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide.

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Coming to STATION F: The first Mentor's Office powered by AWS!

All Things Distributed

I am excited to announce that AWS is opening its first Mentor's Office at STATION F in Paris! The Mentor's Office is a workplace exclusively dedicated to meetings between AWS experts and the startups. All year long, AWS experts will deliver technical and business assistance to startups based on campus.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The first was c3.

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The AWS Pop-up Lofts are opening in London and Berlin

All Things Distributed

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been working closely with the startup community in London, and Europe, since we launched back in 2006. Both London and Berlin are vibrant cities with a concentration of innovative startups building their businesses on AWS. You can also drop in if you don’t have an appointment.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 31st, 2018

High Scalability

Bernard Golden : I see Snowball Edge with EC2 as an AWS initiative designed to reduce the friction of migrating data into AWS with the ultimate goal of enabling applications to migrate to AWS, not a way to run AWS applications on-prem. Woods and Hollnagel, 2006).

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Moving my US tech job to Australia

Brendan Gregg

I moved to the US in 2006 as there were many more opportunities there, especially in kernel engineering and performance. Sydney has AWS and Google offices and even a small Netflix office, just to name a few. (Disclaimer: Netflix is an exception, as they have been great with visa workers including myself).

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