All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

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. I have visited Australia at least twice every year for the past four years and I have seen first-hand evidence of the tremendous interest there is in the AWS service.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

AWS has built a reputation over the years for the breadth and depth of our services and the pace of our innovation with 280 features released in 2013. These are the people working behind the scenes helping customers fully leverage all of AWS’s capabilities when running their infrastructure on AWS.

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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.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

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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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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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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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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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 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.

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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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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.

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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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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 ().

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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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 2012, Dave Cole published a post on How we build CMS free websites. Twitch developer documentation hosted on AWS, edited on CloudCannon. Netlify , Vercel , CloudFlare , and AWS all have the concept of serverless functions run at edge nodes of a CDN. Now you could use GitHub as your CMS. to manage the content. Large preview ).

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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. We are major users of DynamoDB.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

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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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Amazon DynamoDB stores data on Solid State Drives (SSDs) and replicates it synchronously across multiple AWS Availability Zones in an AWS Region to provide built-in high availability and data durability. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 18, 2012

Introducing AWS Marketplace. By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2012 02:00 AM. Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS Marketplace , an online store that makes it easy for you to find, buy, and immediately start using software and services that run on the AWS Cloud. You can use AWS Marketplaceâ??s Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2014

In 2012, the European Commission set up the European Cloud Partnership (ECP), an initiative that brings together technology leaders, cloud users, both private and public sector, and policy-makers to recommend how to establish a Digital Single Market with no walls for cloud computing in Europe.

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