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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. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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

All Things Distributed

In 2010, we opened our first AWS Region in Singapore and since then have opened additional regions: Japan, Australia, China, Korea, and India. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks. However, we do not plan to slow down and we are not stopping there.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

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Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. Master the many facets of delivering high performance images on the internet—without adversely affecting site performance.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

The one thing that I have always struggled with during my travels are the data plans of the cell phone companies. For an internet road warrior they are a complete nightmare. I received one of these devices and tested it for the last three months of 2010 when I was almost continuously on the road. Expanding the Cloud â??

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Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 - All.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM. DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53. Comments ().

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Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. 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.

All Things Distributed

AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. With this new functionality AWS Import/Export now supports importing data directly into Amazon EBS snapshots. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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