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

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed. Comments (). or rss feed.

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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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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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed.

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed.

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

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After the launch of the AWS EU (Stockholm) Region, there will be 13 Availability Zones in Europe for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience.

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Under the Hood of Amazon EC2 Container Service

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To be robust and scalable, this key/value store needs to be distributed for durability and availability, to protect against network partitions or hardware failures. This architecture affords Amazon ECS high availability, low latency, and high throughput because the data store is never pessimistically locked.

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