All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

Driving Compute Cost Down for AWS Customers. By Werner Vogels on 05 March 2012 02:01 PM. AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. At the time, Nanoc talked about compiling source files into HTML: It operates on local files, and therefore does not run on the server.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 14 May 2012 12:01 AM. The first set of features that CloudFront is launching today include: Multiple Origin Servers: the ability to specify multiple origin servers, including a default origin, for a CloudFront download distribution. Of course non-AWS origins are also permitted. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

As we began growing the AWS business, we realized that external customers might find our Dynamo database just as useful as we found it within Amazon.com. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design. Manageable – The service would need to be easy to manage and operate.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 September 2012 06:00 PM. I was in Los Angeles this week for the Digital Media on AWS Summit and to visit many of the studios and production houses that are using AWS for production and post-production work. All the hard work is being done by them on AWS. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Leases.

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