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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background.

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

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In 2010, we opened our first AWS Region in Singapore and since then have opened additional regions: Japan, Australia, China, Korea, and India. They chose to use AWS in order to focus on developing their platform, instead of managing infrastructure. However, we do not plan to slow down and we are not stopping there.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

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Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. . But it is not just Dutch entrepreneurs who build their business in the cloud, also traditional Dutch enterprises are moving to the cloud to improve their agility and cost-effectiveness.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. 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. For more hands-on information and to get started right away, see Jeff Barrs posting on the AWS Developer Blog. Comments ().

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

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Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. With Import into EBS customers can now develop arbitrary complex layouts as the import service is doing a full binary copy of the disk into Amazon EBS and is not interpreting file system layouts, etc. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Comments ().

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2. By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Today, Amazon Web Services took very an important step in unlocking the advantages of cloud computing for a very important application area. There has been no easy way for developers to do this in Amazon EC2.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. Comments ().

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