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My Best Christmas Present ? Root Domain Support for Amazon S3.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 27 December 2012 12:00 PM. S3 is not only a highly reliable and available storage service but also one of the most powerful web serving engines that exists today. And, S3 Website Hosting can redirect that incoming traffic to your preferred domain name (e.g. Root Domain Support for Amazon S3 Website Hosting.

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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. of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. All Things Distributed.

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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. An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. All Things Distributed. Comments (). t need them.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

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Due to the exponential growth of the biology and informatics fields, Unilever needs to maintain this new program within a highly-scalable environment that supports parallel computation and heavy data storage demands. Tom Tom – Founded in 1991, TomTom is a leading provider of navigation and location-based products and services.

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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using.

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By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Large Seasonal Peaks – Our largest community supports TurboTax where the peak traffic during February or April is often 100s of times greater than a quiet day in June. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().

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Structural Evolutions in Data

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It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” ” (It will be easier to fit in the overhead storage.)

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

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With these goals in mind, In January, 2012 we launched Amazon DynamoDB , our cloud-based NoSQL database service designed from the ground up to support extreme scale, with the security, availability, performance and manageability needed to run mission-critical workloads. Manageable – The service would need to be easy to manage and operate.

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