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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. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud รข?? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. Comments (). Today, Amazon Web Services has greater worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. In 2012 Tom Tom launched a new Location Based Services (LBS) platform to give app developers easy access to its mapping content to be able to incorporate rich location based data into their applications.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

Each time, the underlying implementation changed a bit while still staying true to the larger phenomenon of “Analyzing Data for Fun and Profit.” ” They weren’t quite sure what this “data” substance was, but they’d convinced themselves that they had tons of it that they could monetize.