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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

But every year when March 14th comes around, it's a good reminder that Amazon S3 originally launched on Pi Day, March 14, 2006. Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them. One is that the latency within a zone is incredibly fast.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. A good litmus test has been that if you need to SSH into a server or an instance, you still have more to automate. It started by providing server-side encryption in S3 for compliance use cases. APIs are forever. No gatekeepers.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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