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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

Yesterday, AWS evangelist Jeff Barr wrote that AWS will be opening a region in South Korea in early 2016 that will be our 5th region in Asia Pacific. The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017).

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

All Things Distributed

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in France! Over the past 10 years, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS. As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide. As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide.

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Coming to STATION F: The first Mentor's Office powered by AWS!

All Things Distributed

I am excited to announce that AWS is opening its first Mentor's Office at STATION F in Paris! The Mentor's Office is a workplace exclusively dedicated to meetings between AWS experts and the startups. All year long, AWS experts will deliver technical and business assistance to startups based on campus.

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

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been working closely with the startup community in London, and Europe, since we launched back in 2006. Both London and Berlin are vibrant cities with a concentration of innovative startups building their businesses on AWS. You can also drop in if you don’t have an appointment.

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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. Virginia) Region.

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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. Build security in from the ground up.

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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. We can’t, for example, choose the devices that our users access our pages from or decide on the network infrastructure that their requests travel through, but we can take steps to improve our websites’ performance. More after jump!

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