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

All Things Distributed

This region will provide even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users. Leading UK organizations were among the early adopters of the cloud when we first started AWS back in 2006 and we continue to help them drive increased agility, lower IT costs, and easily scale globally.

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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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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

But every year when March 14th comes around, it's a good reminder that Amazon S3 originally launched on Pi Day, March 14, 2006. One is that the latency within a zone is incredibly fast. To provide geographic diversity and lower latencies to end users. At AWS, we don't mark many anniversaries.

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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

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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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Proposal for a Realtime Carbon Footprint Standard

Adrian Cockcroft

This proposal seeks to define a standard for real-time carbon and energy data as time-series data that would be accessed alongside and synchronized with the existing throughput, utilization and latency metrics that are provided for the components and applications in computing environments.

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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. This lowered latency more than 2x and delivered more than 10x improvement in latency variability on the network. Because network access is a shared resource, customers previously could experience significant jitter on the network at times.

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