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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Schütze, 2008. PY99] Data Preparation for Data Mining, D.

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