Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. By Werner Vogels on 19 August 2011 12:40 PM. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers.

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AWS Database Storage Scalability 75

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2011 06:40 AM. Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The concept of regions gives AWS customers control over the placement of their resources and services. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Cloud Readyâ??;

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AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. By Werner Vogels on 24 March 2011 10:31 AM. It is likely that the Amazon Web Services will be used by many of the participants for their compute, storage, database and other cloud resource needs. To make it easy we have free AWS usage credits available onsite for who ever needs them.

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AWS Internet Internet Storage 93

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2011 04:00 PM. Additionally customers are not restricted to AWS services; they can mix-and-match services from other providers to best meet their needs. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

AWS 115

AWS Cloud Java Operating System 115

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Given the widespread use of caching in many of the applications in the AWS Cloud, a caching service had been high on the request list of our customers.

Cloud 117

Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 11 January 2011 10:20 AM. Starting on January 1, 2011, the service, which is called DROAM, is open to use for everyone. Theyre not even an AWS customer :-). Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. All Things Distributed.

Wireless 107

Wireless AWS Internet Internet 107

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 23 February 2011 09:43 AM. In a follow up to the last blog post I have removed the last two dependencies this blog had on running a server somewhere: comments are now served by Disqus and search is now handled by Bing. It imported the commented from my Moveable Type server without a hitch. Comments ().

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AWS Storage Big Data Servers 78

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 18 August 2011 04:00 PM. Many of our Big-Data customers already saw a big drop in their AWS bill last month when the cost of incoming bandwidth was dropped to $0.00. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

Big Data 111

Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 24 May 2011 05:26 AM. Many AWS customers use Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) to front their Internet facing applications. More information can found on the Elastic Load Balancing and the Route 53 detail pages and on the two blog posts on the AWS developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

Internet 114

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

All Things Distributed

JULY 3, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 03 July 2011 03:57 PM. Next to customer visits I will take part in a number of events organized by AWS and by our partners. This week in Japan there are three public events planned: July 4 - AWS HPC Night at Fuji Soft Hall in Akihabara. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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AWS Storage Big Data Cloud 67

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 27 February 2011 11:28 PM. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services.

AWS 60

AWS Storage Big Data Scalability 60

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 11 July 2011 07:22 AM. To get started using Spot or for more details visit the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance web page, the AWS developer blog , and the EC2 Release Notes. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. All Things Distributed.

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AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 85

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 17 February 2011 07:45 AM. Since a few days ago this weblog serves 100% of its content directly out of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) without the need for a web server to be involved. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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AWS Website Storage Servers 134

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation. By Werner Vogels on 24 February 2011 04:00 PM. With the launch of AWS CloudFormation today another important step has been taken in making it easier for customers to deploy applications to the cloud. Comments ().

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AWS Cloud Scalability Storage 121

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 27 April 2011 12:51 AM. The storage systems weve pioneered demonstrate extreme scalability while maintaining tight control over performance, availability, and cost. For example, our Simple Storage Service, Elastic Block Store, and SimpleDB all derive their basic architecture from unique Amazon technologies.

Technology 151

Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 28 March 2011 02:50 PM. The scalability, reliability and durability requirements for Cloud Drive are very high which is why they decided to make use of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) as the core component of their service. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments (). All postings.

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AWS Cloud Storage Internet 138