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DECEMBER 3, 2009

Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern California). We have expanded the AWS footprint in the US and starting today a new AWS Region is available for use: US-West (Northern California). AWS is committed to making its services available at low cost. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Additionally customers are not restricted to AWS services; they can mix-and-match services from other providers to best meet their needs. There are some excellent platforms running on AWS that do precisely this; Ruby on Rails developers have Heroku. Comments ().

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MARCH 24, 2011

Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. To make it easy we have free AWS usage credits available onsite for who ever needs them. The amazing Matt Wood will be on hand during the 48 hours to help folks with any AWS related questions and will probably hack together some cool stuff himself. All Things Distributed.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. By Werner Vogels on 28 April 2010 11:00 AM. Today Amazon Web Services has taken another important step in serving customers worldwide: the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region is now launched. You can also find more information on the AWS developer blog.

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AUGUST 22, 2011

Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Given the widespread use of caching in many of the applications in the AWS Cloud, a caching service had been high on the request list of our customers. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Big Just Got Bigger - 5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 09 December 2010 11:30 AM. Amazon S3 has always been a scalable, durable and available data repository for almost any customer workload. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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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. Route 53 provides Authoritative DNS functionality implemented using a world-wide network of highly-available DNS servers. Comments (). No lock-in.

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JULY 11, 2011

With this change, we will improve the granularity of pricing information you receive by introducing a Spot Instance price per Availability Zone rather than a Spot Instance price per Region. Customers whose bids exceed the Spot price gain access to the available Spot Instances and run as long as the bid exceeds the Spot Price.

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MAY 24, 2011

I am excited that today both the Route 53 , the highly available and scalable DNS service, and the Elastic Load Balancing teams are releasing new functionality that has been frequently requested by their customers: Route 53 now GA : Route 53 is now Generally Available and will provide an availability SLA of 100%. Contact Info.

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JULY 3, 2011

Next to customer visits I will take part in a number of events organized by AWS and by our partners. This week in Japan there are three public events planned: July 4 - AWS HPC Night at Fuji Soft Hall in Akihabara. Next weekend I will travel to Australia where we will have two " Navigating the Cloud with AWS" Events.

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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 (). From CPU to GPU.

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MARCH 28, 2011

As a big music fan with well over 100Gb in digital music I am particularly excited that I now have access to all my digital music anywhere I go. What used to be only available in physical formats now often has digital equivalents and this digitalization is driving great new innovations. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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JULY 13, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Today, I am very proud to be a part of the Amazon Web Services team as we truly make HPC available as an on-demand commodity for every developer to use. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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MAY 18, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 18 May 2010 04:00 PM. This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy. The goal for operational excellence in Amazon S3 (and for all other AWS services) is that it should be "indistinguishable from perfect". Comments ().

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

Today a powerful new feature is available for our Amazon EC2 customers: the ability to boot their instances from Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store). A wide variety of operating systems and software configurations is available for use. with new security patches installed), or add new user data. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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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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DECEMBER 13, 2009

Spot Instances are an innovation that is made possible by the unparalleled economies of scale created by the tremendous growth of the AWS Infrastructure Services. You are assured that your Reserved Instance will always be available in the Availability Zone in which you purchased it. Economies of scale. Contact Info.

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