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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. The storage systems weve pioneered demonstrate extreme scalability while maintaining tight control over performance, availability, and cost.

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Hadoop is quickly becoming the preferred tool for this type of large scale data analytics.

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Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editor's pick - All.

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Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editors pick. By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2010 03:02 AM. I am excited that Amazon Cloudfront has been selected as one of the 10 Editors pick of 2010 by Streaming Media. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.

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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. By Werner Vogels on 18 May 2010 04:00 PM. Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments (). Durability in Amazon S3.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

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MariaDB is a popular SQL open source relational database management system that originated as a fork of MySQL after MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and later Oracle in 2010. Some key features and functionalities of MySQL include: Support for multiple storage engines, allowing users to choose what is suitable for their needs.

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The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

Further, open source databases can be modified in infinite ways, enabling institutions to meet their specific needs for data storage, retrieval, and processing. Non-relational databases: Instead of tables, non-relational (NoSQL) databases use document-based data storage, column-oriented storage, and graph databases.

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Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS.

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AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. Amazon Import/Export is an important tool for customers to accelerate moving large amounts of data into the AWS storage systems. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. At werner.ly Syndication.

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