All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Earlier this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in Montreal, Quebec. The AWS Cloud now operates in 40 Availability Zones within 15 geographic regions around the world, with seven more Availability Zones and three more regions coming online in China, France, and the U.K.

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AWS Cloud Lambda Innovation 155

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

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AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management.

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Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 256

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Google provide a wide spectrum of serverless services for compute and event-driven workloads, databases, storage, messaging, and other purposes. Dynatrace news. Engineers often choose best-of-breed services from multiple sources to create a single application.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But every organization I talked with, that is engaged in a k8s project, told me that in order for them to truly leverage k8s as a cloud native platform you need ALL of the following “ Monitoring as a Self-Service Capabilities ” (MaaSS) which aren’t covered by any of the open source or platform offerings: K8s cluster and pod health monitoring.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 128

All Things Distributed

JUNE 7, 2017

Unlocking the value of data is a primary goal that AWS helps our customers to pursue. We have seen that such devices can benefit greatly from the elastic resources of the cloud. Some use cases have privacy or regulatory constraints: medical data might need to be stored on site at a hospital for years even if also stored in the cloud.

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AWS IoT Lambda Storage 118

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Details on the AWS Blog. AWS has been offering a range of storage solutions: objects, block storage, databases, archiving, etc. When we designed Amazon EFS we decided to build along the AWS principles: Elastic, scalable, highly available, consistent performance, secure, and cost-effective. Details on the AWS Blog.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 26, 2016

In June 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in India. Examples of continuous sensing are found in the managed cloud platform built by Rachio on AWS IoT to enable the secure interaction of its connected devices with cloud applications/other devices.

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AWS Cloud Healthcare Blockchain 90

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

O’Reilly Learning > We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. Without further ado, here are the key results: • At first glance, cloud usage seems overwhelming. More than half of respondents use multiple cloud services. •

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Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

It’s so big that all three major cloud providers are building OpenTelemetry into their own platforms. Using the Trace Context standard, OpenTelemetry provides agreement about the fields and data types that determine the start and end of each span of a trace among endpoints, middleware, and the cloud services that connect them.

Open Source 202

Open Source Analytics Lambda Metrics 202

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al., If you’re moving an OLAP workload to the cloud (AWS in the context of this paper), what DBMS setup should you go with? We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

All Things Distributed

MARCH 15, 2017

Amazon today announced a new program that will make it free for tens of thousands of Alexa developers to build and host most Alexa skills using Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, if developers exceed the AWS Free Tier limits, they may incur AWS usage fees each month. Apply Now > Build and Host Alexa Skills with AWS.

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AWS Development Games Lambda 116

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In AWS’ quest to enable the best data storage options for engineers, we have built several innovative database solutions like Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift. QuickSight is a fast, cloud native, scalable, business intelligence service for the 1/10th the cost of old-guard BI solutions.

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Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 137

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The canononical cloud platform architecture decouples storage and compute services so that each can be scaled and operated independently, i.e., they are disaggregated. A low-latency autoscaling KVS can serve as both global storage and a DHT-like overlay network. Evaluation. A closing thought.

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Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started As businesses grow and demand fluctuates, infrastructure needs to adapt.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Note 1: For a simple functionality such as cropping avatars, another solution would be to completely bypass the server, and implement it directly in the cloud through Lambda functions. Leonardo Losoviz.

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AWS Servers Storage Cloud 44

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

In fact, this is been proven by our customers as Amazon Aurora remains the fastest growing service in AWS history. This consistent performance is a big part of why the Snapchat Stories feature , which includes Snapchat's largest storage write workload, moved to DynamoDB. The opposite is true. Take Expedia, for example.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, Amazon Web Services (AWS) paved the way with its service, CloudFormation, which introduced the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Taking inspiration from AWS's CloudFormation, HashiCorp introduced Terraform with a broader vision. As businesses grow and demand fluctuates, infrastructure needs to adapt.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency. Fast data can have a transformational impact on data-driven development that is underlying a lot of the interesting things happening in the Cloud today.

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Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Other benefits: It has other benefits like a Quicker launch to the market, Easier distribution, saving device power and storage, seamless maintenance, and updating. Serverless architecture is the fastest-growing cloud computing paradigm nowadays. Serverless Computing – AWS Lambda – Amazon Web Services.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Given that Amazon’s AWS Lambda functions are only five years old this November, anyone with more than three years of experience is a very early adopter. Serverless presents a conceptually simpler path to deploying software for those in development roles with no need to manage servers and storage. Custom tooling” ranked No.

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Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. We argue that the time of the RInK store has come and and gone… What on earth are they thinking?

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Cache Latency Google Lambda 79