All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in France! 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. Over the past 10 years, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS.

AWS 166

AWS IoT Internet Internet 166

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

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. Regional isolation.

AWS 132

AWS Latency Lambda Architecture 132

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 2006, Denis Defreyne tried to set up a Ruby-based blog platform and ran into performance problems — “Having a VPS with only 96 MB of RAM, any Ruby-based CMS ran extremely slowly.” Twitch developer documentation hosted on AWS, edited on CloudCannon. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here.

Ecommerce 140

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140