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

All Things Distributed

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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Alpha Returns Require an Alpha IT Capability

The Agile Manager

Worse, we have often allowed “results” to act as a surrogate for an assessment of IT effectiveness , but looking exclusively at results is often incomplete, and there is a high degree of latency between results data – the quality of delivered IT systems – and capability development. IBM Institute for Business Value, July 2007. Thurm, Scott.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. AWS has developed a unique skill to innovate datacenter layout and operations, such that we can have flexible network infrastructure that can be adapted to meet the needs of our customers’ workloads, whatever they may be. No gatekeepers.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

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.” It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter. Blog aware.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

© ​​ 2006 ​​ Microsoft Corporation. ​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. ​​ All rights reserved. ​​ The target is set to 100ms if shutdown is in progress.

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