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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using.

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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using Amazon RDS. By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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

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

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By Werner Vogels on 12 November 2012 05:00 AM. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? 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

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By offloading the task of managing infrastructure to AWS Essent is able to spend more time on innovating on behalf of their customers to help them in their energy usage. Tom Tom – Founded in 1991, TomTom is a leading provider of navigation and location-based products and services.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

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By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Managing databases has been a stumbling block for many of our customers, shifting their time away from developing innovative applications to the â??muckâ?? Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. Comments ().

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Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility - All Things.

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By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. If you have a web application for which you expect uniform steady state traffic, the most cost-effective option is to use Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances (RIs). Making predictions about web traffic is a very difficult endeavor. All Things Distributed. Comments (). t need them.

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

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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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