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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. Due to the exponential growth of the biology and informatics fields, Unilever needs to maintain this new program within a highly-scalable environment that supports parallel computation and heavy data storage demands. Royal Dutch Shell – is one of the world’s largest companies. *In

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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 Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. At werner.ly Syndication.

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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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. At werner.ly Syndication. or rss feed.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” ” (It will be easier to fit in the overhead storage.)

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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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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. We only need to hold the line on script bloat for a few years for devices and networks to overtake the extreme, unconscionable excesses of the 2010's. The Moto G4 , for example.