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

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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. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Comments ().

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Web Performance Bookshelf

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Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. A collection of practical articles on front-end website performance for front-end developers. Learning HTTP/2.

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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. 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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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

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As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Just dropping your website in an S3 bucket brings all that power to you. And it is not just purely static websites. Comments ().

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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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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

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I received one of these devices and tested it for the last three months of 2010 when I was almost continuously on the road. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. APAC Summer Tour.

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

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services.

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