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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. By Werner Vogels on 18 August 2011 04:00 PM. 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. Comments ().

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

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Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

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By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. There are many success stories about the effectiveness of caching in many different scenarios; next to helping applications achieving fast and predictable performance, it often protects databases from requests bursts and brownouts under overload conditions. All Things Distributed.

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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. The new Sao Paulo Region provides better latency to South America, which enables AWS customers to deliver higher performance services to their South American end-users. Additionally, it allows them to keep their data inside of Brazil. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. - All Things.

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By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. In Amazon Web Services there are similar dimensions that are forever important to our customers; scale, reliability, security, performance, ease of use, and of course pricing. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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By Werner Vogels on 27 April 2011 12:51 AM. To our shareowners: Random forests, naïve Bayesian estimators, RESTful services, gossip protocols, eventual consistency, data sharding, anti-entropy, Byzantine quorum, erasure coding, vector clocks. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed.

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Music to my Ears - All Things Distributed

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By Werner Vogels on 28 March 2011 02:50 PM. Amazon S3 is used by enterprises of all sizes and is designed to handle scaling extremely well; it stores hundreds of billions of objects and easily performs several hundreds of thousands of storage transaction a second. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Comments ().

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