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

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. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. It is likely that the Amazon Web Services will be used by many of the participants for their compute, storage, database and other cloud resource needs. To make it easy we have free AWS usage credits available onsite for who ever needs them. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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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

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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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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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

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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

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

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.

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Wireless AWS Internet Internet 107

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

In a follow up to the last blog post I have removed the last two dependencies this blog had on running a server somewhere: comments are now served by Disqus and search is now handled by Bing. It imported the commented from my Moveable Type server without a hitch. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Contact Info.

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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. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers.

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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.

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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.

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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

JULY 13, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Dedicated High Performance Compute clusters require significant capital investments and their procurement often has longer lead times than many enterprise class server systems. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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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.

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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. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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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. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. All postings.

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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. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. blog comments powered by Disqus.

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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. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

While the instance is stopped it does not accrue any usage hours and customers are only charged for the storage associated with the Amazon EBS volume. 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.

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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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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. Consistently we have lowered compute, storage and bandwidth prices based on such cost savings. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Economies of scale.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Since a few days ago this weblog serves 100% of its content directly out of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) without the need for a web server to be involved. I had held out implementing an alternative to my simple blog server that had. Comments (). Click on [link].

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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

MAY 18, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. By Werner Vogels on 18 May 2010 04:00 PM. Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments (). Durability in Amazon S3.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

The scalability, reliability and durability requirements for Cloud Drive are very high which is why they decided to make use of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) as the core component of their service. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. All postings.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editors pick. By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2010 03:02 AM. I am excited that Amazon Cloudfront has been selected as one of the 10 Editors pick of 2010 by Streaming Media. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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Media AWS Storage Big Data 60

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. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. Also more details can be found on the AWS Developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 24 February 2010 07:00 AM. Amazon S3 and Amazon SimpleDB are examples of AWS services that are designed using these high-availability principles using an eventual consistency model. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Comments ().

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