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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. 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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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. . | Permalink. Comments (). Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

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By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. 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.

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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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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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Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore.

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By Werner Vogels on 28 April 2010 11:00 AM. There are four main reasons to do so: Performance - For many applications and services, data access latency to end users is important. The new Singapore Region offers customers in APAC lower-latency access to AWS services. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

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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. The Cloud First strategy is most visible with new Federal IT programs, which are all designed to be â??Cloud Cloud Readyâ??; More information.

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