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Expanding the Cloud – The Second AWS GovCloud (US) Region, AWS GovCloud (US-East)

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The AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region is our second AWS GovCloud (US) Region, joining AWS GovCloud (US-West) to further help US government agencies, the contractors that serve them, and organizations in highly regulated industries move more of their workloads to the AWS Cloud by implementing a number of US government-specific regulatory requirements.

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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

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About 5 years ago, I introduced you to AWS Availability Zones, which are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

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

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. 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. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

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Expanding the Cloud â?? 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. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Expanding the Cloud â??

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

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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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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. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Expanding the Cloud â?? All Things Distributed.

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

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This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. AWS was crucial to the successful launch of WOW air’s U.S.

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