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AWS re:Invent 2013

All Things Distributed

Today we are kicking off AWS re:Invent 2013. Outside of the keynotes, there are an incredible number of sessions offering a tailored experience whether you are a developer, startup, executive, partner, or other. You can see the full session catalog here. I’m impressed by the scale and technical depth of what’s offered to attendees.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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Evolving Regional Evacuation

The Netflix TechBlog

Niosha Behnam | Demand Engineering @ Netflix At Netflix we prioritize innovation and velocity in pursuit of the best experience for our 150+ million global customers. In 2013 we first developed our multi-regional availability strategy in response to a catalyst that led us to re-architect the way our service operates.

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Autonomous Cloud Enablement aka Scaling NoOps via Self-Service

Dynatrace

Autonomous Cloud is what enables our globally distributed development teams at Dynatrace to deliver better software faster following our NoOps approach: Fully Autonomous and as a Self-Service! Dynatrace news. Autonomous Cloud is not another lofty marketing term. Three waves of DevOps leading to Autonomous Cloud.

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Customer Centricity at Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

In the 2013 Amazon Shareholder letter , Jeff Bezos spent time explaining the decision to pursue a customer-centric way in our business. AWS has built a reputation over the years for the breadth and depth of our services and the pace of our innovation with 280 features released in 2013.

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

All Things Distributed

In Italy, we employ local teams of account managers, solutions architects, business development managers, partner managers, professional services consultants, technology evangelists, start-up community developers, marketing managers, and many more. In 2013, we launched a dedicated program called AWS Activate.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong. Today we have local teams in Hong Kong to help customers of all sizes as they move to AWS, including account managers, solutions architects, business developers, partner managers, professional services consultants, technology evangelists, start-up community developers, and more.

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