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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. In 2012, Amazon opened its first Italian office and its first Italian point of presence (PoP) based in Milan. The company decided it wanted the scalability, flexibility, and cost benefits of working in the cloud.

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Expanding the Cloud ? The Amazon Simple Workflow Service - All.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 22 February 2012 12:01 AM. Amazon SWF is an orchestration service for building scalable distributed applications. They must deal with the increased latency and unreliability inherent in remote communication. Comments ().

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Expanding the Cloud ? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 12 November 2012 05:00 AM. This new Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in Australia and New Zealand.

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As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! This move is another milestone in our global expansion and mission to bring flexible, scalable, and secure cloud computing infrastructure to organizations around the world.

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The AWS Storage Gateway - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 23 January 2012 12:01 AM. We have been working closely with our customers on their requests to bring the power of the Amazon Web Services cloud closer to their existing on-premises compute infrastructures. s storage infrastructure.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. All Things Distributed. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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AppFabric Caching: Retry Later

ScaleOut Software

Likewise, object access paths must be heavily multi-threaded and avoid lock contention to minimize access latency and maximize throughput. These are areas in which we have invested heavily to take advantage of 10 Gbps (and faster) networks and to handle intermittent network delays inherent in virtual server infrastructures.

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