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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Hong Kong! 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.

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. In 2010, Netflix introduced a technology to switch production software instances off at random — like setting a monkey loose in a server room — to test how the cloud handled its services. Blast radius.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

All Things Distributed

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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Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS.

All Things Distributed

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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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

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. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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