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

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

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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. After the launch of the AWS APAC (Hong Kong) Region, there will be 19 Availability Zones in Asia Pacific for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming. The one thing that I have always struggled with during my travels are the data plans of the cell phone companies. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â??

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

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Caching has become a standard component in many applications to achieve a fast and predictable performance, but maintaining a collection of cache servers in a reliable and scalable manner is not a simple task. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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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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