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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. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific. AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners in Hong Kong help customers migrate to the cloud.

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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. High Performance Browser Networking. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

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Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. With the launch of the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, companies can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services directly connected to Japanese networks.

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

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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. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Spot Instances - Increased Control.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

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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. Royal Dutch Shell – is one of the world’s largest companies. *In

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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. During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Comments (). APAC Summer Tour.

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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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