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JUNE 20, 2017

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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MARCH 2, 2011

Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. The advanced Asia Pacific network infrastructure also makes the AWS Tokyo Region a viable low-latency option for customers from South Korea. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

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. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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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 ().

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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 down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Comments ().

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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

There are different considerations when deciding where to allocate resources with latency and cost being the two obvious ones, but compliance sometimes plays an important role as well. Government and Big Data. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics.

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