DZone

MAY 5, 2022

I use my personal AWS S3 to store all my personal and confidential documents. There are three primary reasons for choosing AWS S3: affordability, speed, and reliability. If you are working on the AWS cloud, the usage of S3 is inevitable. S3 plays a critical role in storing objects in hot and cold storage.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

What is workload in cloud computing? Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

What does strong enterprise cloud security entail, and how can you achieve it? With the prevalence of cyber threats and regulatory pressures, safeguarding your enterprise’s cloud infrastructure is more critical than ever. As more and more enterprises incorporate cloud-based systems, ensuring their security becomes a key concern.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In recent years, function-as-a-service (FaaS) platforms such as Google Cloud Functions (GCF) have gained popularity as an easy way to run code in a highly available, fault-tolerant serverless environment. What is Google Cloud Functions? Google Cloud Functions is a serverless compute service for creating and launching microservices.

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InfoQ

MAY 15, 2023

A horizontally scalable exabyte-scale blob storage system which operates out of multiple regions, Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data. Adopting SMR technology and erasure codes, the system has extremely high durability guarantees but is cheaper than operating in the cloud. By Facundo Agriel

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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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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

If you’re using PostgreSQL in the cloud, there’s a good chance you’re spending more than you need in order to get the results you need for your business. Usage reduction: What to look for to reduce PostgreSQL cloud costs The first step in cost reduction is to use what you need and not more. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

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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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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. The FaaS model of cloud computing debuted in 2014 with startups like hook.io.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer. Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services. The job of a cloud is to run workloads.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. Get up to 300 new AWS metrics out of the box.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. Get up to 300 new AWS metrics out of the box.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 133

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The Ohio Region is the fifth AWS region in the US. It brings the worldwide total of AWS Availability Zones (AZs) to 38, and the number of regions globally to 14. The pace of expansion at AWS is accelerating, and Ohio is our third region launch this year. We are also glad to offer low transfer rates between both US East Regions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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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 ? These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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?? s storage infrastructure.

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Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

ARM architecture, based on a processor type optimized for cloud and hyperscale computing, has become the most prevalent on the planet, with billions of ARM devices currently in use. This is a crucial factor for all data centers, cloud or managed, where power consumption and cooling costs are reflected in the total cost of ownership.

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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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High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Have a very scalable Xmas everyone! What could be better than a book on the cloud? Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. swardley: X : What's going to happen in cloud in 2019? 2) Cloud will decentralise in terms of provision not power i.e. Me : Nothing special. See you in the New Year.

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Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The containerization craze has continued for enterprises, with benefits such as portability, efficiency, and scalability. Container as a service is a cloud-based service that allows companies to manage and deploy containers at scale. This, in turn, drove the creation of cloud-based services that further automated this function.

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Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 221

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. Polymorphic Data Storage. At a glance – TLDR. The Greenplum Architecture. Greenplum Advantages.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Modern, cloud-native computing is impossible to separate from containers and Kubernetes adoption. As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

When AWS launched, it changed how developers thought about IT services: What used to take weeks or months of purchasing and provisioning turned into minutes with Amazon EC2. Capital-intensive storage solutions became as simple as PUTting and GETting objects in Amazon S3. Our answer is a new compute service called AWS Lambda.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

While many organizations have embraced cloud observability to better manage their cloud environments, they may still struggle with the volume of entities that observability platforms monitor. Fluentd is known for its flexibility and is also highly scalable, which makes it a good choice for high-volume environments.

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Strategy AWS Open Source Transportation 185

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. Comments ().

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High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S,

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Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. Storage: don’t break the bank!

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. It would mean a great deal to me. They'll love you even more. There are a few more quotes. Not so many this week.

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Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

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

JULY 7, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. The AWS Import/Export team has announced today that they have expanded their functionality significantly by adding Import into Amazon EBS. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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AWS Cloud Storage Internet 96

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. 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].

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

The first version of our logger library optimized for storage by deduplicating facts and optimized for network i/o using different compression methods for each fact. Since we were optimizing at the logging level for storage and performance, we had less data and metadata to play with to optimize the query performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Metaflow is a cloud-native framework. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both both for compute and storage. Netflix has been one of the largest users of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for many years and we have accumulated plenty of operational experience and expertise in dealing with the cloud, AWS in particular.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 23, 2021

Cloud testing is expected to grow to USD 11 Billion by 2023 , and we are talking about only cloud testing here, not cloud computing. Complex testing scenarios such as cross-browser testing, parallel testing, can be made more effective when done on the cloud. Time is money and cloud-based testing saves it.

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Cloud Testing AWS Testing Tools 74

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. No, I don’t think that is because AWS is earning a 355x margin on DynamoDB!

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Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199