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

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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)

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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. It was founded in 2006 and has since grown to have over 210 million users in 190 countries, and hosts over five million domains.

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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. The Amazon S3 team still celebrate with homemade pies! Virginia) Region.

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Cloud computing in Europe should put power in the hands of the customer

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No longer do they need to spend valuable human and capital resources on maintaining and procuring expensive technology infrastructure and datacenters, they can focus their most valuable resources on what they do best, building better products and services for their customers.

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