All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

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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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

It is likely that the Amazon Web Services will be used by many of the participants for their compute, storage, database and other cloud resource needs. To make it easy we have free AWS usage credits available onsite for who ever needs them. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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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. Route 53 provides Authoritative DNS functionality implemented using a world-wide network of highly-available DNS servers. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

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%.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 3, 2011

There is a tremendous interest in using the AWS multi-Availability Zone features for disaster prevention and recovery in the wake of the March 11 earthquake. I will update this posting as more details about public events become available. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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All Things Distributed

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. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 28 April 2010 11:00 AM. Availability - The cloud makes it possible to build resilient applications to make sure they can survive different failure scenarios. By placing instances in different Availability Zones, developers can build systems that can survive many complex failure scenarios. Comments ().

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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. To do so, weve leaned heavily on the core principles from the distributed systems and database research communities and invented from there.

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All Things Distributed

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. Comments (). Expanding the Cloud â??

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

You are assured that your Reserved Instance will always be available in the Availability Zone in which you purchased it. This snapshot-restart technique is a well known methodology already available to many batch oriented applications. They can also specify the Availability Zone these Instances should be launched in.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

The space of possible actions can be defined as a set of send/no-send decisions with regard to individual customers and the gross margin of the campaign depends both on actions (who will receive the incentive and who will not) and data such as expected revenue from a given customer and mailing costs. The model (2.1)

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

been running at a traditional hosting site for many years until this preferred simple solution became available: today marks that day and I couldnt be happier about it. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. APAC Summer Tour.

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All Things Distributed

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 down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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All Things Distributed

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. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

When a new customer is onboarded, the ISV has to spin up a collection of AWS resources to run their web-servers, app-servers and databases in a multi-AZ (availability zone) setting to achieve high-availability. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Expanding the Cloud â??

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 24 February 2010 07:00 AM. Amazon SimpleDB has launched today with a new set of features giving the customer more control over which consistency and concurrency models to use in their database operations. Data Consistency Models in the Amazon Services. Choosing Consistency. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

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. For example to ensure availability of data, the data is replicated over multiple locations such that failure modes are independent of each other.

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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 (). From CPU to GPU.

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