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

All Things Distributed

With this opening, Amazon continues to build out global programs to support startup growth and to speed up innovation. Alexa Fund , which provides up to $100 million in venture capital funding to fuel voice technology innovation. After the launch of AWS in 2006, we saw an acceleration of French startups adopting the cloud.

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

All Things Distributed

French organizations were amongst the first to use AWS when we launched in 2006. To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Implementing this change enabled us to take major steps such as updating our infrastructure along with completely rewriting our core functionality from the ground up. We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

I find it slightly reassuring that, despite there being many websites with very low speeds and high emissions, most of the results are clustered in the bottom right of the chart. On YouTube, the average number of monthly users grew from 20 million in 2006 to 2 billion in 2020. Taking Action. Rendering Is Much Slower on Mobile.

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Doing Science On The Web

Alex Russell

This illustrates what happens when experiments inadvertently become critical infrastructure. In technology as in life there is no stasis, only various speeds of growth or decay. Between 2002 and 2006, the web (roughly) didn’t add any new features. It has happened before. Over , and over , and over again. Was that better?