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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Hadoop is quickly becoming the preferred tool for this type of large scale data analytics.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

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Master the many facets of delivering high performance images on the internet—without adversely affecting site performance. How to measure every aspect of your web presence -- including analytics, backend performance, usability, communities, customer feedback, and competitive analysis. ” – Andy King, 2003. Still good.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

For an internet road warrior they are a complete nightmare. For a while this was great but as this doesnt include web and application internet traffic I started to see a rise in my roaming costs which T-Mobile charges at $15/MB. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 - All.

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By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM. DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53. Comments ().

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

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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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Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS.

All Things Distributed

AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

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Elastic Load Balancing now provides support for EC2 Security Groups such that customers that hosts their Internet accessible application instances behind ELB can build security rules that for example restrict traffic to only the ELB instances that front them. Introducing a new Internet protocol is not a simple feat.

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