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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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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. To do so, weve leaned heavily on the core principles from the distributed systems and database research communities and invented from there.

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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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Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services - All.

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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. Comments (). Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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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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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

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These companies can now benefit from the fact that the new Sao Paulo Region is similar to all other AWS Regions, which enables software developed for other Regions to be quickly deployed in South America as well. Please also visit the AWS developer blog for more great stories from our South American customers. Expanding the Cloud â??

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

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There are many success stories about the effectiveness of caching in many different scenarios; next to helping applications achieving fast and predictable performance, it often protects databases from requests bursts and brownouts under overload conditions. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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

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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. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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