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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 located in the eastern part of the United States, providing customers with a second isolated Region in which to run mission-critical workloads with lower latency and high availability.

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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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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. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region.

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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. 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. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Comments ().

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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. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

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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. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Contact Info.

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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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