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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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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. Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. Expect the unexpected.

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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.

All Things Distributed

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Four years later it stores over 100 billion objects and routinely performs well over 120,000 storage operations per second. Durability in Amazon S3. Relaxing Durability.

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