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Happy 15th Birthday Amazon S3 -- the service that started it all

All Things Distributed

Back when S3 launched on March 14, 2006 (also known as “Pi Day” to some), iPhones didn’t exist, neither did tweets or likes, Facebook was still only used by a few colleges and universities, and you couldn’t hail a ride or order lunch with an app. 15 years is a long time in the world of technology.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. However, many of these models are highly parametric (i.e.

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

All Things Distributed

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. Enterprise Companies – Unilever , ATOC , National Rail Enquiries.

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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Speaking from experience, around 2006 the ceiling on discretionary spending decisions dropped precipitously in many companies. The increasing disruption caused by technology in everything from retail to education to NGOs will defy command and control management.

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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 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.

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