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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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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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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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APRIL 28, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 28 April 2010 11:00 AM. Customers can now store their data and run their applications from our Singapore location in the same way they do from our other U.S. Quite often "The Cloud" is portrayed as something magically transparent that lives somewhere in the internet. Comments (). and European Regions.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

A whole range of innovative new services, ranging from media conversion to geo-location-context services have been developed by our customers using this flexibility and are available in the AWS ecosystem. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

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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AWS Storage Operating System Cloud 60

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. The storage systems weve pioneered demonstrate extreme scalability while maintaining tight control over performance, availability, and cost.

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

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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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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. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Expanding the Cloud â??

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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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AWS Cloud Storage Internet 138

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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. 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. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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AWS Cloud Scalability Storage 121

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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. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

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Storage Cloud AWS Scalability 71

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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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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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