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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud.

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Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services - All.

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

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After the launch of the AWS APAC (Hong Kong) Region, there will be 19 Availability Zones in Asia Pacific for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world.

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Just dropping your website in an S3 bucket brings all that power to you.

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Government and Big Data. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics. The scalability, flexibility and the elasticity of AWS makes it an ideal environment for the agencies to run their analytics.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. There are many success stories about the effectiveness of caching in many different scenarios; next to helping applications achieving fast and predictable performance, it often protects databases from requests bursts and brownouts under overload conditions.

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â??

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