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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so. As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide. French organizations were amongst the first to use AWS when we launched in 2006.

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Proposal for a Realtime Carbon Footprint Standard

Adrian Cockcroft

This proposal seeks to define a standard for real-time carbon and energy data as time-series data that would be accessed alongside and synchronized with the existing throughput, utilization and latency metrics that are provided for the components and applications in computing environments.

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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

But every year when March 14th comes around, it's a good reminder that Amazon S3 originally launched on Pi Day, March 14, 2006. March 26, 2008 doesn't have any delicious desserts associated with it, but that's the day when we launched Availability Zones for Amazon EC2. How Availability Zones have changed over the years.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Now there’s a massive range of Jamstack CMSs available, which bring all the advantages of static sites while allowing non-technical folk to update content. ’ Before MovableType, other personal blogging platforms were available such as Geocities , Blogger & Open Diary. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here.

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Alpha Returns Require an Alpha IT Capability

The Agile Manager

Capacity - the time available to work on developing these solutions - will not alone deliver the solution as emergent products and greater business insight are arrived at iteratively, and through business-IT collaboration. 4 The Battle for Brainpower" The Economist, 5 October 2006. IBM Institute for Business Value, July 2007.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. But we couldn’t adopt the old style approach of upgrading systems through a maintenance outage, as many businesses around the world are relying on our platform for 24/7 availability. No gatekeepers.

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