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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

Today, I am happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Italy! The AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the 25th AWS Region that we've announced globally. It's the sixth AWS Region in Europe, joining existing regions in France, Germany, Ireland, the UK, and the new Region that we recently announced in Sweden.

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As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! Based in Bahrain, this will be the first Region for AWS in the Middle East. This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East.

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Expanding the Cloud ? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 12 November 2012 05:00 AM. Today, Amazon Web Services has greater worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia. The Region launches with two Availability Zones to help customers build highly available applications. Comments (). blog comments powered by Disqus.

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Expanding the Cloud ? The Amazon Simple Workflow Service - All.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 22 February 2012 12:01 AM. Today AWS launched an exciting new service for developers: the Amazon Simple Workflow Service. They must deal with the increased latency and unreliability inherent in remote communication. As always The AWS developer blog has additional details. Expanding the Cloud â??

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Expanding the Cloud ? Provisioned IOPS for Amazon RDS - All.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. Following the huge success of being able to provision a consistent, user-requested I/O rate for DynamoDB and Elastic Block Store (EBS), the AWS Database Services team has now released Provisioned IOPS, a new high performance storage option for the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

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Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. For example, AWS customers use SQS for asynchronous communication pipelines, buffer queues for databases, asynchronous work queues, and moving latency out of highly responsive requests paths. Similarly, AWS customers have been using SQS in interesting ways. Comments ().

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Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery

The Netflix TechBlog

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. Since there were no existing solutions available, we needed to build them ourselves.

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