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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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Proposal for a Realtime Carbon Footprint Standard

Adrian Cockcroft

The challenge is that accurate data isn’t available immediately, and cloud providers currently only provide monthly carbon data, with several months lag. I published a paper and presentation in 2006 that discusses the complexities of measuring CPU utilization. The energy model in use should be reported as a key/value in the data feed.

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

All Things Distributed

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. After the launch of the French region there will be 10 Availability Zones in Europe. The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017.

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The AWS Pop-up Lofts are opening in London and Berlin

All Things Distributed

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been working closely with the startup community in London, and Europe, since we launched back in 2006. Self-paced Hands-on Labs : beginners through advanced users can attend the labs which will help sharpen AWS technical skills at a personal pace and are available for free in the Loft during operating hours.

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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. The importance of the network. No gatekeepers.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

It was founded in 2006 and has since grown to have over 210 million users in 190 countries, and hosts over five million domains. There are various performance budgeting products and open-source tools available, but we decided to create our own custom budgeting service called Perfer.

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