All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. Service-oriented architecture -- or SOA -- is the fundamental building abstraction for Amazon technologies. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. Almost immediately after the launch of Amazon EC2, our customers started to use it for High Performance Computing. Comments (). HPC and Amazon EC2.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

There are many success stories about the effectiveness of caching in many different scenarios; next to helping applications achieving fast and predictable performance, it often protects databases from requests bursts and brownouts under overload conditions. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. APAC Summer Tour.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The new Sao Paulo Region provides better latency to South America, which enables AWS customers to deliver higher performance services to their South American end-users. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the words of Guilherme Horn, the CEO of Ã?RAMA

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

In Amazon Web Services there are similar dimensions that are forever important to our customers; scale, reliability, security, performance, ease of use, and of course pricing. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Spot Instances - Increased Control.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

In addition, the EU (Ireland) Region is available to customers who want local access to services from Europe to address their performance or jurisdiction requirements. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM. I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. The Domain Name System is a wonderful practical piece of technology; it is a fundamental building block of our modern internet. Comments ().

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APRIL 28, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 28 April 2010 11:00 AM. There are four main reasons to do so: Performance - For many applications and services, data access latency to end users is important. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Comments ().

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

It’s fascinating to read about the different ways our technology-reliant world is vulnerable to attacks. Goodman doesn’t pull any punches, and he spends maybe 80% of the book outlining all the various technologies and how they leave us vulnerable. Despite this, I have to admit I tore right through the book. Thankfully it’s not.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

Amazon S3 is used by enterprises of all sizes and is designed to handle scaling extremely well; it stores hundreds of billions of objects and easily performs several hundreds of thousands of storage transaction a second. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. This incredible power is available for anyone to use in the usual pay-as-you-go model, removing the investment barrier that has kept many organizations from adopting GPUs for their workloads even though they knew there would be significant performance benefit. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 18 May 2010 04:00 PM. Four years later it stores over 100 billion objects and routinely performs well over 120,000 storage operations per second. All the complexities of scalability, reliability, durability, performance and cost-effectiveness are hidden behind a very simple programming interface. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 24 February 2010 07:00 AM. There are many factors that come into play when you need to meet stringent availability and performance requirements under ultra-scalable conditions. If you need to achieve high-availability and scalable performance, you will need to resort to data replication techniques.

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