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Introduction to KVM, SR-IOV, and Exploring the Advantages of SR-IOV in KVM Environments

DZone

Embedded within the Linux kernel, KVM empowers the creation of VMs with their virtualized hardware components, such as CPUs, memory, storage, and network cards, essentially mimicking a machine. KVM functions as a type 1 hypervisor, delivering performance similar to hardware—an edge over type 2 hypervisors.

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Diving Deep on S3 Consistency

All Things Distributed

I recently posted about Amazon S3 and how it’s evolved over the last 15 years since we launched the service in 2006 as “storage for the internet.” ” We built S3 because we knew customers wanted to store backups, videos, and images for applications like e-commerce web sites.

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Auto-Increment Counter Persistence in MySQL 8: Comparing the Evolution From MySQL 5.7

Percona

sec) Now, let’s delete the last record (ID 4) from the “users” table, perform a restart, and inspect the table’s contents: mysql> delete from users where id=4; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec) service mysql restart mysql> select * from users; ERROR 2006 (HY000): MySQL server has gone away No connection.

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Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3

Smashing Magazine

In this article, I will describe this latter solution, based on a WordPress application storing files on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) (a cloud object storage solution to store and retrieve data), operating through the AWS SDK. this->s3Client) { // Create an S3Client. Conclusion.

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Impact of DDL Operations on Aurora MySQL Readers

Percona

Aurora replicas connect to the same storage volume as the primary DB instance and support only read operations. To understand this better let’s see what happens when we perform any DDL operation in a binary log-based replication environment and in the Aurora replication environment. Trying to reconnect. What are the issues?

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance.

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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy. Comments ().

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