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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

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By Werner Vogels on 01 March 2011 10:00 PM. Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region.

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

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By Werner Vogels on 14 December 2011 07:00 PM. This new Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low-latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in South America. Additionally, it allows them to keep their data inside of Brazil. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

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By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2011 06:40 AM. There are different considerations when deciding where to allocate resources with latency and cost being the two obvious ones, but compliance sometimes plays an important role as well. Government and Big Data. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

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By Werner Vogels on 11 July 2011 07:22 AM. As a part of that process, we also realized that there were a number of latency sensitive or location specific use cases like Hadoop, HPC, and testing that would be ideal for Spot. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

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It will also give customers another region where they can store their data with the knowledge that it will not leave the EU unless they move it. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. AWS was crucial to the successful launch of WOW air’s U.S.

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