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What is container orchestration?

Dynatrace

Container technology enables organizations to efficiently develop cloud-native applications or to modernize legacy applications to take advantage of cloud services. Because containers are ephemeral, managing them can become problematic, and even more problematic as the numbers of containers proliferate. How does container orchestration work?

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. We introduced Amazon RDS for Oracle last year , and based on the demand from our Windows customers, are introducing Amazon RDS for SQL Server today.

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Since the launch of Spot Instances in December 2009, we have heard from a large number of customers, like Scribd , University of Melbourne/University of Barcelona , Numerate , DNAnexus , and Litmus that Spot is a great way of reducing their bills with reported savings as high as 66%. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 02 December 2009 05:00 PM. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments (). At werner.ly Syndication.

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Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 02 December 2009 05:00 PM. While the instance is stopped it does not accrue any usage hours and customers are only charged for the storage associated with the Amazon EBS volume. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. All Things Distributed.

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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 13 December 2009 03:00 PM. Consistently we have lowered compute, storage and bandwidth prices based on such cost savings. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Comments ().

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

Since 2009, Greenpeace has been putting pressure on big Internet companies to clean up their energy mix by way of their Clicking Clean campaign. An obvious metric here is CPU usage, but memory usage and other forms of data storage also play their part. In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie.