All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Today Amazon Web Services is expanding its world-wide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region located in Tokyo, Japan. The advanced Asia Pacific network infrastructure also makes the AWS Tokyo Region a viable low-latency option for customers from South Korea.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. The AWS Import/Export team has announced today that they have expanded their functionality significantly by adding Import into Amazon EBS. AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation. With the launch of AWS CloudFormation today another important step has been taken in making it easier for customers to deploy applications to the cloud. Creating and managing these environments was a pain that AWS CloudFormation set out to relieve. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. All of this can be done from the AWS console as well as with the AWS SDKs. More details about the website feature of Amazon S3 can be found here and in Jeff Barrs blog post on the AWS developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The concept of regions gives AWS customers control over the placement of their resources and services. The Cloud First strategy is most visible with new Federal IT programs, which are all designed to be â??Cloud

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. Any work we can do to improve over these dimensions generates long term benefits for AWS customers. Our solution architects work with customers to look for opportunities to exploit elasticity in AWS setups which can lead to significant savings in operational cost. Comments ().

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As for attending USENIX conferences: I finally started attending and speaking at them in 2010 when a community manager encouraged me to (thanks Deirdre Straughan), and since then I've met many friends and connections, including Amy who is now USENIX President, and Rikki with whom I co-chaired the USENIX LISA18 conference.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Additionally customers are not restricted to AWS services; they can mix-and-match services from other providers to best meet their needs. There are some excellent platforms running on AWS that do precisely this; Ruby on Rails developers have Heroku. Comments ().

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g.,

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern California). We have expanded the AWS footprint in the US and starting today a new AWS Region is available for use: US-West (Northern California). AWS is committed to making its services available at low cost. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. By Werner Vogels on 28 April 2010 11:00 AM. Today Amazon Web Services has taken another important step in serving customers worldwide: the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region is now launched. You can also find more information on the AWS developer blog.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Given the widespread use of caching in many of the applications in the AWS Cloud, a caching service had been high on the request list of our customers. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

I received one of these devices and tested it for the last three months of 2010 when I was almost continuously on the road. Theyre not even an AWS customer :-). Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

Amazon S3 is used by enterprises of all sizes and is designed to handle scaling extremely well; it stores hundreds of billions of objects and easily performs several hundreds of thousands of storage transaction a second. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Contact Info.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

It is simple and elegant, as you would expect from someone who has won several design awards. I am still using the same layout and css I used with MT, as I prefer to make one change at the time: design comes next. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. All postings.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM. Route 53 has the business properties that you have come to expect from an AWS service: fully self-service and programmable, with transparent pay-as-you-go pricing and no minimum usage commitments. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 30 September 2010 04:27 AM. With existing customers I get a change to dive deep on their AWS usage and understand what works well and where we can do better. AWS Solutions Architect Matt Tavis will present on " Architecting for the Cloud ". In India there will be 3 AWS Cloud Computing events.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. This instance limit is a default usage limit, not a technology limit. Also more details can be found on the AWS Developer blog. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 29 September 2010 07:50 AM. I did write for those occasions where I thought additional background on AWS service and feature launches was relevant, but beyond that not much materialized. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Many of our Big-Data customers already saw a big drop in their AWS bill last month when the cost of incoming bandwidth was dropped to $0.00. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Contact Info.

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Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers.

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AWS Storage Big Data Servers 78

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 19 November 2010 07:51 AM. for November 2010 was released and an Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute Instance based cluster came in at #231. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 09 December 2010 11:30 AM. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

Many AWS customers use Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) to front their Internet facing applications. More information can found on the Elastic Load Balancing and the Route 53 detail pages and on the two blog posts on the AWS developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 18 May 2010 04:00 PM. Under the covers Amazon S3 is a marvel of distributed systems technologies. The goal for operational excellence in Amazon S3 (and for all other AWS services) is that it should be "indistinguishable from perfect". All Things Distributed. Comments (). Relaxing Durability.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 3, 2011

Next to customer visits I will take part in a number of events organized by AWS and by our partners. This week in Japan there are three public events planned: July 4 - AWS HPC Night at Fuji Soft Hall in Akihabara. Next weekend I will travel to Australia where we will have two " Navigating the Cloud with AWS" Events.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 22 April 2010 05:17 PM. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

To get started using Spot or for more details visit the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance web page, the AWS developer blog , and the EC2 Release Notes. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 24 February 2010 07:00 AM. These new features will make it easier to transition those applications to SimpleDB that are designed with traditional database tools in mind. Especially those applications that originally were designed with a traditional database in mind will be easier to adapt to Simple DB.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

For more details on the new boot features visit the Amazon EC2 detail page and the posting on the AWS developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Contact Info. Other places.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Spot Instances are an innovation that is made possible by the unparalleled economies of scale created by the tremendous growth of the AWS Infrastructure Services. Price History : Amazon EC2 provides a history of the Spot Price for each instance type in each Region via the AWS Management Console and the APIs. Economies of scale.

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