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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

AWS has built a reputation over the years for the breadth and depth of our services and the pace of our innovation with 280 features released in 2013. These are the people working behind the scenes helping customers fully leverage all of AWS’s capabilities when running their infrastructure on AWS.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 12 November 2012 05:00 AM. Today, Amazon Web Services has greater worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia. I have visited Australia at least twice every year for the past four years and I have seen first-hand evidence of the tremendous interest there is in the AWS service.

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MAY 15, 2014

Cloud computing unlocks innovation within organisations of all types and sizes. As a result of affordable cloud resources we are already seeing centres of innovation and excellence, emerging in London, Berlin, Barcelona and Stockholm that are beginning to rival Silicon Valley.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 12 September 2012 01:00 AM. Reserved Instances are an important pricing option for AWS customers to drive cost down. Customers buying on the marketplace often have a need for Reserved Instances, but at a period different from the 1 & 3 year terms that AWS offers. button in the AWS Management Console.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 22 February 2012 12:01 AM. Today AWS launched an exciting new service for developers: the Amazon Simple Workflow Service. Today, to accomplish this, developers are forced to write complicated infrastructure that typically involves message queues and databases along with complex logic to synchronize them.

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AUGUST 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper.

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JUNE 21, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS. In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records. ve already passed our 2012 targets. Comments ().

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let’s now look at the history behind the service and the context for new innovations that make me think that. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo. Since launch, DynamoDB has been the core infrastructure powering various AWS and Amazon services and has provided more than 5 9s of availability worldwide.

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JANUARY 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Amazon DynamoDB stores data on Solid State Drives (SSDs) and replicates it synchronously across multiple AWS Availability Zones in an AWS Region to provide built-in high availability and data durability. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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