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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

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The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018.

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

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We have expanded the AWS footprint in the US and starting today a new AWS Region is available for use: US-West (Northern California). This new Region consists of multiple Availability Zones and provides low-latency access to the AWS services from for example the Bay Area. AWS is committed to making its services available at low cost.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

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Please note that Amazon ElastiCache is currently available in the US East (Virginia) Region. It will be available in other AWS Regions in the coming months. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

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Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. For more details on AWS in Japan see [link].

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

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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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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

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Government and Big Data. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics. Several agencies of very different parts of the government have needs for data analytics that really put the Big in Big-Data, sometimes several orders of magnitude larger than commonly found in industry.

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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. 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 ().

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