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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in France! Over the past 10 years, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS. As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide. As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide.

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So many bad takes?—?What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story

Adrian Cockcroft

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. A real-time user experience analytics engine for live video, that looked at all users rather than a subsample.

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The 5 Minute Rule - All Things.

All Things Distributed

The AWS team launched this week Amazon Glacier , a cold storage archive service at the very low price point of $0.01 The papers are from 1987, 1997 and 2007. In 2007 Goetz revisited the results, this time also including SSD storage into the mix, which not surprisingly did change everything. Comments (). per GB/month.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. MongoDB Enterprise editions and MongoDB Atlas — which integrates with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — are not free. Is MongoDB free for commercial use?

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 8th, 2019

High Scalability

Newzoo : The games market took more than 35 years to grow to a $35 billion business in 2007. Last time I checked, AWS was still lagging behind Azure and GCP on Kubernetes, but I have a strong feeling they're prioritizing improving EKS over ECS. This year, that same market is expected to generate $137.9 billion in revenues.

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