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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

At AWS, we don't mark many anniversaries. But every year when March 14th comes around, it's a good reminder that Amazon S3 originally launched on Pi Day, March 14, 2006. A concept that has changed infrastructure architecture is now at the core of both AWS and customer reliability and operations.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 31st, 2018

High Scalability

Bernard Golden : I see Snowball Edge with EC2 as an AWS initiative designed to reduce the friction of migrating data into AWS with the ultimate goal of enabling applications to migrate to AWS, not a way to run AWS applications on-prem. Woods and Hollnagel, 2006).

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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. Given that AWS is a pioneer in building and operating these services world-wide, these lessons have been of crucial importance to our business. AWS helps its customers do this too. your resource usage.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

The good news is that, as developers, we can do an awful lot about it. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. I recently reworked the design of my personal blog in order to make it a little more user-friendly. More after jump! Large preview ).

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. In Designing The Perfect Navigation , Vitaly will explore 100s of practical examples of better mega-dropdowns , hamburgers, carousels, modals and filters.

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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.

All Things Distributed

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers. The goal for operational excellence in Amazon S3 (and for all other AWS services) is that it should be "indistinguishable from perfect". Durability in Amazon S3. Relaxing Durability.

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