All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. By Werner Vogels on 23 January 2012 12:01 AM. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? Once the AWS Storage Gatewayâ??s Comments ().

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Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

All Things Distributed

APRIL 11, 2012

Expanding the Cloud â?? By Werner Vogels on 12 April 2012 12:00 AM. s search technology to every developer. And like most AWS services, Amazon CloudSearch scales automatically as your data and traffic grow, making it an easy choice for applications small to large. Introducing Amazon CloudSearch. Comments (). Why Search?

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Cloud AWS Technology Technology 149

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Expanding the Cloud â?? 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. Many young businesses as well as established enterprises are already using AWS, many of them targeting customers globally. Comments ().

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Cloud AWS Ecommerce Latency 117

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Expanding the Cloud â?? By Werner Vogels on 22 February 2012 12:01 AM. Today AWS launched an exciting new service for developers: the Amazon Simple Workflow Service. Amazon SWF makes it very easy for developers to architect and implement these tasks, run them in the cloud or on premise and coordinate their flow.

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Cloud AWS Java Scalability 130

All Things Distributed

JULY 19, 2012

Expanding The Cloud â?? By Werner Vogels on 19 July 2012 12:00 AM. AWS customers are bringing their most demanding workloads onto the cloud. For more details on the new instance type see the EC2 detail page and the AWS developer blog. (As High Performance I/O Instances for Amazon EC2. Comments ().

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Cloud Performance AWS Virtualization 129

All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2014

This is the promise – and the reality – of cloud computing which is driving tremendous change in the technology industry and transforming how we do business in Europe and around the world. Cloud computing unlocks innovation within organisations of all types and sizes.

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Cloud Innovation AWS Government 123

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Expanding the Cloud â?? By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. As with all AWS services, if you are in doubt about whether your application can benefit from Provisioned IOPS, it is very easy to try it out and decide for yourself, as there are no upfront costs. Provisioned IOPS for Amazon RDS. Comments ().

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Cloud AWS Storage Database 117

All Things Distributed

APRIL 18, 2012

Do You Want to Help Build the Next AWS Service? By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2012 02:00 AM. ve met thousands of brilliant engineers who are leveraging the cloud to deliver exciting new products and revolutionize IT as we know it. finding good engineers to help AWS build the next generation of cloud computing services.

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AWS Scalability Innovation Architecture 91

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Expanding the Cloud â?? By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. In Amazon Glacier data is stored as archives, which are uploaded to Glacier and organized in vaults, which customers can control access to using the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service. All Things Distributed. Comments (). designed for 11 ninesâ??)

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Storage Cloud AWS Media 122

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. " Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

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. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. Impressive!

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS. 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. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability 104

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Note 1: For a simple functionality such as cropping avatars, another solution would be to completely bypass the server, and implement it directly in the cloud through Lambda functions. Leonardo Losoviz. Creating The Bucket.

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AWS Servers Storage Cloud 44

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

You can add DAX to your existing DynamoDB applications with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console – no application rewrites required. DynamoDB has come a long way in the 5 years since we announced its availability in January 2012. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage. Saving crucial milliseconds.

Speed 121

Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 12 September 2012 01:00 AM. Reserved Instances are an important pricing option for AWS customers to drive cost down. Customers buying on the marketplace often have a need for Reserved Instances, but at a period different from the 1 & 3 year terms that AWS offers. button in the AWS Management Console.

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AWS Traffic Cloud Innovation 111

All Things Distributed

MARCH 20, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2012 09:00 PM. s AWS Elastic Beanstalk announcement of PHP and Git support reminded me of the post where I mentioned that we want to let a thousand platforms bloom on AWS. Some might ask why AWS would want a thousand platforms. One of the most important AWS principles is flexibility.

AWS 104

AWS Scalability Java Storage 104

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. Both of these are important as they help customer accurately gauge the economic benefits of running their applications in the cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper. All Things Distributed. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility.

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AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

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 ().

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Troy: We moved our service from internal servers to AWS. Comments ().

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Innovation AWS Education Network 146

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. DynamoDB is the result of 15 years of learning in the areas of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services. s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. Comments (). History of NoSQL at Amazon â?? The growth of Amazonâ??s

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. Now you can run queries on any item attributes (columns) in your DynamoDB table.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

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. Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments.

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Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

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. However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This motivated the development of DBLog , which offers log and dump processing under a generic framework. There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. Proceedings of the Third ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing. The destination may be a datastore or an external API.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This motivated the development of DBLog , which offers log and dump processing under a generic framework. There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. Proceedings of the Third ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing. The destination may be a datastore or an external API.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212