All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2012 07:00 PM. I am in São Paolo, Brazil for the 2012 AWS Latin America Summit and for The Next Web Latin America conference. I will also be visiting Chile and Mexico on this trip and have the great fortune to meet many of our Latin American AWS customers. Comments (). Contact Info.

Architecture 95

Architecture AWS Internet Internet 95

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The first was c3.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

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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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

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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Cloud AWS Storage Database 117

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). I often get to meet, discuss, and learn from innovators how they are using AWS to deliver transformative applications to their users, customers and partners. Comments (). the recoverability of data.

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Innovation AWS Education Network 146

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

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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AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

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.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution. Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS OpsWorks , a flexible application management solution with automation tools that enable you to model and control your applications and their supporting infrastructure. AWS OpsWorks Unique Features.

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AWS Cloud Architecture Infrastructure 157

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.

Ecommerce 140

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140

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. These design principles led us to client-side load-balancing, and the 2012 Christmas Eve outage solidified this decision even further.

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Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

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.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

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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Cache Latency AWS Website 117

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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AWS Media Cache Operating System 75

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. The destination may be a datastore or an external API. Supporting Relational Databases. We want to support these systems as a source so that they can provide their data for further consumption. References [1] Das, Shirshanka, et al. “

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Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. The destination may be a datastore or an external API. Supporting Relational Databases. We want to support these systems as a source so that they can provide their data for further consumption. References [1] Das, Shirshanka, et al. “

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon DynamoDB â?? Comments ().

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167