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

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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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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

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The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. This was a lesson we had already learned from our experiences with Amazon retail, but it became even more important for AWS’s API-centric business. APIs are forever. No gatekeepers.

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