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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1% small (thanks @cperciva ). ## 3.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1% small (thanks @cperciva ). ## 3.

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Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility - All Things.

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By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] Nov 2011 - [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] Feb 2012 - [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] 2013 - [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals.

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Document Model Support in DynamoDB: Flexibility, Availability, Performance, and Scale.Together at last

All Things Distributed

In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo. We built DynamoDB as a fully-managed service because we wanted to enable our customers, both internal and external, to focus on their application rather than being distracted by undifferentiated heavy lifting like dealing with hardware and software maintenance.

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Amazon DynamoDB - From the Super Bowl to WeatherBug - All.

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By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS. In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records. ve already passed our 2012 targets. Comments ().

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