All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. Essent currently hosts all of their public facing websites and customer self-service portals in the AWS cloud. Shell''s scientists, especially the geophysicists and drilling engineers, frequently use cloud computing to run models.

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Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

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. And it is not just purely static websites. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

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Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Government and Big Data. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics. Several agencies of very different parts of the government have needs for data analytics that really put the Big in Big-Data, sometimes several orders of magnitude larger than commonly found in industry.

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AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. With the launch of the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, companies can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services directly connected to Japanese networks.

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AWS Cloud Games Latency 112

All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. With this new functionality AWS Import/Export now supports importing data directly into Amazon EBS snapshots. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Spot Instances - Increased Control.

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AWS Cloud Storage Internet 96

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The naming system that we are all most familiar with in the internet is the Domain Name System (DNS) that manages the naming of the many different entities in our global network; its most common use is to map a name to an IP address, but it also provides facilities for aliases, finding mail servers, managing security keys, and much more.

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Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

It targets both the application developer by providing a set of simple tools to get started quickly and the platform developer by giving control over the underlying technology stack. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. APAC Summer Tour.

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AWS Cloud Java Operating System 115

Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2021

Carrie called out how at Dynatrace we know it takes a village to achieve the extraordinary, from innovating reliable digital services at speed to learning how to adapt and thrive while managing our increasingly complex, dynamic technology environments. She’s quite clear about which kinds of data, though. She wasn’t wrong.

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DevOps Innovation Big Data Cloud 246

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. Given that I have frequently written about many of these technologies on this blog I asked investor relations to be allowed to reprint it here.

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

Websites, mobile apps, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring. However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications – including your customers and employees.

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Artificial Intelligence Social Media Monitoring IoT 182

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

Websites, mobile apps, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring. However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course end-users that access these applications – including your customers and employees.

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Monitoring Performance Social Media Artificial Intelligence 132

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. I have used a bucket policy to make all documents world readable, but you could create one that restricts it to referrers, network address range, time of day, etc. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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AWS Website Storage Servers 134

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

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. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Many of us are lucky enough to be on mobile plans which allow several gigabytes of data transfer per month. Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% Mbps upload.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

By supporting such large object sizes, Amazon S3 better enables a variety of interesting big data use cases. You can create parallel uploads to better utilize your available bandwidth and even stream data into Amazon S3 as its being created. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. APAC Summer Tour.

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AWS Big Data Scalability Storage 80

All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Amazon Cloudfront is the Content Delivery Network (CDN) that is dead simple to use both from a technology and a business point of view. From a technology point it literally takes a single button click in the console or a single API call to have your content CDN enabled. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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Media AWS Storage Big Data 60

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

We know she’s an expert on designing technology to protect the vulnerable, but did you know she’s the international record holder for the most doughnuts performed in a forklift truck? When I log into our bank from a new Wi-Fi network, I have to ask him like which of these streets did you live on when you were a kid? Eva: Yeah.

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Design Education Network Google 98

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Its use cases span the whole storage spectrum; from enterprise database backup to media distribution, from consumer file storage to genomics datasets, from image serving for websites to telemetry storage for NASA. Under the covers Amazon S3 is a marvel of distributed systems technologies. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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Storage Cloud AWS Scalability 71

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This instance limit is a default usage limit, not a technology limit. Although everyone in the industry has known for years that General Purpose GPU processing is a direction with amazing potential, making major investments has been seen as high-risk given how fast moving the technology and programming was. Where to go from here?

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AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Eric Brewer of UC Berkeley summarized these challenges in what has been called the CAP Theorem , which states that of the three properties of shared-data systems--data consistency, system availability, and tolerance to network partitions--only two can be achieved at any given time. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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AWS Latency Database Scalability 69