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

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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. French organizations were amongst the first to use AWS when we launched in 2006. Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in France!

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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

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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. One is that the latency within a zone is incredibly fast.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

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The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. The importance of the network. Each of those workloads have unique requirements when it comes to the network. Because network access is a shared resource, customers previously could experience significant jitter on the network at times.

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