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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

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This new Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low-latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in South America. The new Sao Paulo Region provides better latency to South America, which enables AWS customers to deliver higher performance services to their South American end-users.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

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By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. Almost immediately after the launch of Amazon EC2, our customers started to use it for High Performance Computing. Comments (). HPC and Amazon EC2.

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Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern.

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This new Region consists of multiple Availability Zones and provides low-latency access to the AWS services from for example the Bay Area. In addition, the EU (Ireland) Region is available to customers who want local access to services from Europe to address their performance or jurisdiction requirements. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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

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By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM. I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. This achieves very low-latency for queries which is crucial for the overall performance of internet applications. Comments ().

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Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore.

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By Werner Vogels on 28 April 2010 11:00 AM. There are four main reasons to do so: Performance - For many applications and services, data access latency to end users is important. The new Singapore Region offers customers in APAC lower-latency access to AWS services. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

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By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. This incredible power is available for anyone to use in the usual pay-as-you-go model, removing the investment barrier that has kept many organizations from adopting GPUs for their workloads even though they knew there would be significant performance benefit. Comments ().

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Choosing Consistency - All Things Distributed

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By Werner Vogels on 24 February 2010 07:00 AM. There are many factors that come into play when you need to meet stringent availability and performance requirements under ultra-scalable conditions. If you need to achieve high-availability and scalable performance, you will need to resort to data replication techniques.

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