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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

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Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. . But it is not just Dutch entrepreneurs who build their business in the cloud, also traditional Dutch enterprises are moving to the cloud to improve their agility and cost-effectiveness.

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Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS - All Things.

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Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS. By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. Today, SQS is a key part of this architecture and is used in mission critical backend systems for a myriad of use-cases in the Kindle platform, Amazon Retail Ordering workflow, Amazon Fulfillment technologies, etc. Comments ().

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Taking DynamoDB beyond Key-Value: Now with Faster, More Flexible, More Powerful Query Capabilities

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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. Since then, we have been working on adding flexible querying.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

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" Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing. The requirements for a fully hosted cloud database service needed to be at an even higher bar than what we had set for our Amazon internal system. million requests per second.

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