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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. Zones impact how we build, deploy, and operate software, as well as how we enforce security controls between our largest systems. One is that the latency within a zone is incredibly fast.

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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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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. Build evolvable systems. But we couldn’t adopt the old style approach of upgrading systems through a maintenance outage, as many businesses around the world are relying on our platform for 24/7 availability. Expect the unexpected.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

© ​​ 2006 ​​ Microsoft Corporation. KB sectors run on smaller sectors   14 System and sample databases   15 Determining the formatted sector size of database   15 What sector sizes does SQL Server support? Complying with all applicable copyright laws is the responsibility of the user.

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Alpha Returns Require an Alpha IT Capability

The Agile Manager

While the systems and solutions it produces might automate tasks of the business, not to mention allow for complex tasks not otherwise practical to be manually executed, the production of those systems is a people-centric process. 4 The Battle for Brainpower" The Economist, 5 October 2006. Thurm, Scott.