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

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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. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editor's pick - All.

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Here are the laurels given by the editors: Debuting in November 2008, Amazons entry into the CDN market quickly became a major player. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Expanding the Cloud â??

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