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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.

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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.

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2011 11:40 AM. As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. No Server Required. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

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.

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Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS.

All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2011 01:40 PM. AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. Amazon Import/Export is an important tool for customers to accelerate moving large amounts of data into the AWS storage systems. Comments (). or rss feed.

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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.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization

DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 11 January 2011 10:20 AM. For an internet road warrior they are a complete nightmare. For a while this was great but as this doesnt include web and application internet traffic I started to see a rise in my roaming costs which T-Mobile charges at $15/MB. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

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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Free at Last - A Fully Self-Sustained Blog Running in Amazon S3.

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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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. Caching has become a standard component in many applications to achieve a fast and predictable performance, but maintaining a collection of cache servers in a reliable and scalable manner is not a simple task. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. All Things Distributed.

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 14 December 2011 07:00 PM. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments (). or rss feed.

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

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 01 March 2011 10:00 PM. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. Comments (). Subscribe to this weblogs. or rss feed.

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Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services - All.

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AUGUST 19, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 19 August 2011 12:40 PM. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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AWS Database Storage Scalability

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

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JUNE 29, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. All Things Distributed. Comments (). or rss feed.

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AWS Retail Innovation Strategy

From the Archives - Gapingvoid's Nobody Cares - All Things.

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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. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. All Things Distributed. Comments (). or rss feed.

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

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AUGUST 18, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 18 August 2011 04:00 PM. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. All Things Distributed. Comments (). or rss feed.

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Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud

Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 11 July 2011 07:22 AM. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. All Things Distributed. Comments (). or rss feed.

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APAC Summer Tour - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

JULY 3, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 03 July 2011 03:57 PM. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. All Things Distributed. APAC Summer Tour. or rss feed.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2011 04:00 PM. AWS Elastic Beanstalk automatically creates the AWS resources and application stack needed to run the application, freeing developers from worrying about server capacity, load balancing, scaling their application, and version control. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2011 06:40 AM. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. All Things Distributed. Comments (). or rss feed.

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AWS Government Big Data Cloud

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3 - All Things.

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

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. I had held out implementing an alternative to my simple blog server that had. Comments (). or rss feed.

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AWS Website Storage Servers

Music to my Ears - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 28 March 2011 02:50 PM. Our smart phones and tablets are obvious examples, but many other devices are quickly gaining these capabilities; TV Sets and Hifi systems are internet enabled, and soon our treadmills and automobiles will be equally plugged into the digital world. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

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AWS Cloud Storage Internet

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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.

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Technology Technology AWS Storage

Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation.

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 24 February 2011 04:00 PM. When a new customer is onboarded, the ISV has to spin up a collection of AWS resources to run their web-servers, app-servers and databases in a multi-AZ (availability zone) setting to achieve high-availability. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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