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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. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS customers to use the choice of operating system, programming language, development tools and database software that meet their application requirements.

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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using.

All Things Distributed

One of the services that is very successful in driving innovation at our customers in this context is Amazon RDS , the Relational Database Service. Amazon RDS removes the headaches of running a relational database service reliably at scale, allowing Amazon RDS customers to focus on innovation for their customers. hands freeÃ?

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Our Once and Future Wisdom: Re-acquiring Lost Institutional Knowledge

The Agile Manager

It took a lot of challenging the "why" on those specific portions of the value stream before they understood how a simple shared database would eliminate lots of no-value-added inventory control steps.

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Strongly Type Those Table-Valued Parameters

SQL Performance

Table-valued parameters have been around since SQL Server 2008 and provide a useful mechanism for sending multiple rows of data to SQL Server, brought together as a single parameterized call. Where this really can make a difference is in cloud implementations where you are paying for more than just compute and storage resources.

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