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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In 2012, Amazon opened its first Italian office and its first Italian point of presence (PoP) based in Milan. Some of the largest enterprises and public sector organizations in Italy are using AWS to build innovations and power their businesses, drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed time-to-market.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

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. introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. Comments ().

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. The Region will be in the heart of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and we're aiming to have it ready by early 2019. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 22 February 2012 12:01 AM. They must deal with the increased latency and unreliability inherent in remote communication. Tasks can be long-running, may fail, may timeout and may complete with varying throughputs and latencies. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â?? The Amazon Simple Workflow Service.

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JANUARY 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. This is not just predictability of median performance and latency, but also at the end of the distribution (the 99.9th percentile), so we could provide acceptable performance for virtually every customer. Comments ().

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

So when we launched in January 2012, we provided simple query functionality that used hash primary keys or composite primary keys (hash + range). Since then, we have been working on adding flexible querying. You saw the first iteration in April 2013 with the launch of Local Secondary Indexes (LSI).

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