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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy. Comments ().

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Impact of DDL Operations on Aurora MySQL Readers

Percona

Aurora replicas connect to the same storage volume as the primary DB instance and support only read operations. After the ALTER TABLE completes, the modified structure will be visible to the replicas because of the same underlying storage. Trying to reconnect. Lost connection to MySQL server during query So what is the issue?

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Cloud computing in Europe should put power in the hands of the customer

All Things Distributed

We are rapidly entering into an era where massive computing power, digital storage and global network connections can be deployed by anyone as quickly and easily as turning on the lights. Cloud computing unlocks innovation within organisations of all types and sizes.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

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Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3

Smashing Magazine

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Note 1: For a simple functionality such as cropping avatars, another solution would be to completely bypass the server, and implement it directly in the cloud through Lambda functions. Leonardo Losoviz. Creating The Bucket.

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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. Cloud providers don’t disclose their own REC and Private Purchase Agreements, but these are taken into account in their monthly reports, with a few months delay.

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