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

All Things Distributed

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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Web Performance Bookshelf

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Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. How to use and combine these popular tools to set up a customized development workflow from start to finish.

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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. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. However, we do not plan to slow down and we are not stopping there.

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

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As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Just dropping your website in an S3 bucket brings all that power to you. And it is not just purely static websites. Comments ().

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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. APAC Summer Tour.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. These sensors create massive amounts of geological data. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. Essent currently hosts all of their public facing websites and customer self-service portals in the AWS cloud.

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

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Government and Big Data. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics. Several agencies of very different parts of the government have needs for data analytics that really put the Big in Big-Data, sometimes several orders of magnitude larger than commonly found in industry.

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