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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. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. However, we do not plan to slow down and we are not stopping there.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

After many investigations I settled for T-Mobile which has an international Blackberry supplement that is $20/month for all BB mail traffic. For a while this was great but as this doesnt include web and application internet traffic I started to see a rise in my roaming costs which T-Mobile charges at $15/MB. Their starting rates is â?¬27.50

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

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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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

ITAR is the International Traffic in Arms Regulatory framework which stipulates for example that data must be stored in an environment where physical and logical access is restricted to US Persons. Government and Big Data. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics.

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New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

All Things Distributed

Elastic Load Balancing now provides support for EC2 Security Groups such that customers that hosts their Internet accessible application instances behind ELB can build security rules that for example restrict traffic to only the ELB instances that front them. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. APAC Summer Tour.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

Each time, the underlying implementation changed a bit while still staying true to the larger phenomenon of “Analyzing Data for Fun and Profit.” ” They weren’t quite sure what this “data” substance was, but they’d convinced themselves that they had tons of it that they could monetize.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

All Things Distributed

Vivino was founded in 2010 and now has more than 20 million users worldwide and offices in four countries across three continents. Vivino also uses Auto Scaling to deal with the large seasonal fluctuations in traffic. Telenor Connexion. Telenor Connexion is all-in on AWS. They are primarily using the services for two main platforms.

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