All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. Public sector.

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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., Microservices fundamentally change a lot of assumptions current cloud systems are designed with, and present both opportunities and challenges when optimizing for quality of service (QoS) and utilization.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. Observability relies on telemetry derived from instrumentation that comes from the endpoints and services in your multi-cloud computing environments.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? AWS Identity and Access Management brings together on-premises and cloud identity management. Comments ().

Storage 115

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Given that AWS is a pioneer in building and operating these services world-wide, these lessons have been of crucial importance to our business. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2. Today, Amazon Web Services took very an important step in unlocking the advantages of cloud computing for a very important application area. Unlocking the benefits of the cloud for the HPC community. By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Comments ().

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

those resources now belong to cloud providers, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others. Again, the benefit being that the code within your containers or virtual machines is managed by the cloud provider. When code isn’t in use, the cloud providers typically throttle it all the way down.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. For Physalia, and for AWS more generally, the guiding principle is minimise the blast radius. NSDI’20.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

cdemi

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Let's talk about the elephant in the room; Serverless doesn't really mean that there are no Software or Hardware servers. Whether you choose Azure Functions or AWS Lambda, you cannot easily switch to another. Azure Functions don't have this restriction, but on AWS Lambda, functions are not allowed to run for longer than 5 minutes.

Serverless 64

Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 64

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

DynamoDB Streams is the enabling technology behind two other features announced today: cross-region replication maintains identical copies of DynamoDB tables across AWS regions with push-button ease, and triggers execute AWS Lambda functions on streams, allowing you to respond to changing data conditions. DynamoDB Streams.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances. For example, the most fundamental abstraction trade-off has always been latency versus throughput. The throughput of this pipeline is more important than the latency of the individual operations. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

DynamoDB is the result of 15 years of learning in the areas of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services. With Amazon DynamoDB, developers scaling cloud-based applications can start small with just the capacity they need and then increase the request capacity of a given table as their app grows in popularity.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this role, I am leading a global team that works closely with our strategic partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Pivotal, Red Hat and others. The key question we keep getting from our customers is: How can Dynatrace help me reduce risk, move faster and achieve a better business outcome for my cloud migration project?

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. VoltDB provides the necessary technology to achieve the latency required by header bidding. However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. VoltDB provides the necessary technology to achieve the latency required by header bidding. However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. Collecting some critical metrics at one second intervals, with a total observability latency of ten seconds or less matches the human attention span much better. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Sutter's Mill

JUNE 21, 2012

In the twilight of Moore’s Law, the transitions to multicore processors, GPU computing, and HaaS cloud computing are not separate trends, but aspects of a single trend—mainstream computers from desktops to ‘smartphones’ are being permanently transformed into heterogeneous supercomputer clusters.

Latency 40

Latency Transportation Hardware Education 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist. Tracing ZFS operation latency. Xen's biggest user is the Amazon EC2 cloud, which has over one million customers, and appears to be a custom version (it self identifies as version "3.4.3.amazon").

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. Collecting some critical metrics at one second intervals, with a total observability latency of ten seconds or less matches the human attention span much better. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). A good starting point is to choose a good default stack for your application.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104