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

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This region will provide even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users. We are committed to meeting our customers’ increasing needs for capacity and for powerful AWS services that eliminate the heavy lifting of the underlying IT infrastructure -- allowing them to focus more of their precious resources on their core business.

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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. This was a lesson we had already learned from our experiences with Amazon retail, but it became even more important for AWS’s API-centric business. APIs are forever. Each of those workloads have unique requirements when it comes to the network.

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