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MARCH 2, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. By Werner Vogels on 01 March 2011 10:00 PM. Today Amazon Web Services is expanding its world-wide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region located in Tokyo, Japan. For more details on AWS in Japan see [link]. Comments ().

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AUGUST 17, 2011

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2011 11:40 AM. But while this blog happily runs out of S3, the process of creating and updating the content still required a server to run my Moveable Type installation and hold the database. No Server Required. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. Any work we can do to improve over these dimensions generates long term benefits for AWS customers. For more details see the announcement , the details pages of the services at [link] , and the posting on the AWS developer blog.

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AUGUST 19, 2011

Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. By Werner Vogels on 19 August 2011 12:40 PM. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. By Werner Vogels on 24 March 2011 10:31 AM. To make it easy we have free AWS usage credits available onsite for who ever needs them. There is one requirement; you have to be "hacking" using the AWS APIs. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. All Things Distributed.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2011 04:00 PM. Additionally customers are not restricted to AWS services; they can mix-and-match services from other providers to best meet their needs. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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AUGUST 22, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Given the widespread use of caching in many of the applications in the AWS Cloud, a caching service had been high on the request list of our customers.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming. By Werner Vogels on 11 January 2011 10:20 AM. The one thing that I have always struggled with during my travels are the data plans of the cell phone companies. Starting on January 1, 2011, the service, which is called DROAM, is open to use for everyone. All Things Distributed.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 23 February 2011 09:43 AM. In a follow up to the last blog post I have removed the last two dependencies this blog had on running a server somewhere: comments are now served by Disqus and search is now handled by Bing. It imported the commented from my Moveable Type server without a hitch. Comments ().

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FEBRUARY 27, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 27 February 2011 11:28 PM. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. All Things Distributed.

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MARCH 28, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 28 March 2011 02:50 PM. The service is designed to sustain concurrent device failures by quickly detecting and repairing any lost redundancy, for example there may be a concurrent loss of data in two facilities without the customer ever noticing. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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MAY 24, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 24 May 2011 05:26 AM. Many AWS customers use Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) to front their Internet facing applications. More information can found on the Elastic Load Balancing and the Route 53 detail pages and on the two blog posts on the AWS developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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JULY 3, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 03 July 2011 03:57 PM. Next to customer visits I will take part in a number of events organized by AWS and by our partners. This week in Japan there are three public events planned: July 4 - AWS HPC Night at Fuji Soft Hall in Akihabara. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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JULY 11, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 11 July 2011 07:22 AM. To get started using Spot or for more details visit the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance web page, the AWS developer blog , and the EC2 Release Notes. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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APRIL 27, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 27 April 2011 12:51 AM. The advances in data management developed by Amazon engineers have been the starting point for the architectures underneath the cloud storage and data management services offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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