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. A whole range of innovative new services, ranging from media conversion to geo-location-context services have been developed by our customers using this flexibility and are available in the AWS ecosystem. Comments ().

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Ford, et al., “TCP

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 24 March 2011 10:31 AM. Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. Expanding the Cloud â??

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All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 24 May 2011 05:26 AM. 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. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Expanding the Cloud â?? By Werner Vogels on 14 December 2011 07:00 PM. These companies can now benefit from the fact that the new Sao Paulo Region is similar to all other AWS Regions, which enables software developed for other Regions to be quickly deployed in South America as well. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

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. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. For more details see the announcement , the details pages of the services at [link] , and the posting on the AWS developer blog. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 19 August 2011 12:40 PM. This team is constantly rethinking the assumptions behind how traditional databases were built and constantly working on building the right database architectures suited for the Cloud environment. For more information: Head of Software Development  . Expanding the Cloud â??

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2011 11:40 AM. Cactus is a static website generator developed by Koen Bok of Made By Sofa (recently acquired by Facebook ). It has been developed by Tom Preston-Werner of GitHub fame. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Expanding the Cloud â?? All Things Distributed.

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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. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2011 06:40 AM. This new region, which is located on the West Coast of the US, helps US government agencies and contractors move more of their workloads to the cloud by implementing a number of US government-specific regulatory requirements.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 10, 2011

The success of both tablets and smartphones (and to a lesser extent the fringe battlegrounds of e-readers and other specialized devices), as well as the rapid maturation of cloud-based services, has created a tech hardware war, an OS war, a bidding war for tech firms, and spawned a feeding frenzy in application development.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Icelandic low-cost airline carrier WOW air is using AWS for its Internet-facing IT infrastructure, including its booking engine, development platforms, and web servers.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 27 April 2011 12:51 AM. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Expanding the Cloud â??

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 17 February 2011 07:45 AM. More details about the website feature of Amazon S3 can be found here and in Jeff Barrs blog post on the AWS developer blog. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

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. A simple scenario is for example the ability to clearly identify production from staging and development environments.

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