All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

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. However, this cannot be done without efficient, scalable data analytics.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

AWS also applies the same customer oriented pricing strategy: as the AWS platform grows, our scale enables us to operate more efficiently, and we choose to pass the benefits back to customers in the form of cost savings. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Expanding the Cloud â??

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The broad Amazon EC2 customer base brings such diversity in workload and utilization patterns that it allows us to operate Amazon EC2 with extreme efficiency. A highly efficient purchasing model such as Spot Instances is another way in which Amazon EC2 customers benefit from the unique economies of scale found in AWS Infrastructure Services.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. Now that our ability to generate higher and higher clock rates has stalled and CPU architectural improvements have shifted focus towards multiple cores, we see that it is becoming harder to efficiently use these computer systems. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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