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

All Things Distributed

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong.

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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. Lamborghini, the world-famous manufacturer of elite, luxury sports cars based in Italy, has been using AWS to reduce the cost of their infrastructure by 50 percent, while also achieving better performance and scalability.

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Real-World Effectiveness of Brotli

CSS Wizardry

21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! They were either running their own infrastructure and installing and deploying Brotli everywhere proved non-trivial, or they were using a CDN who didn’t have readily available support for the new algorithm.

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Expanding the Cloud: Faster, More Flexible Queries with DynamoDB

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 17 April 2013 10:30 AM. While DynamoDB already allows you to perform low-latency queries based on your tableâ??s This gives you the ability to perform richer queries while still meeting the low-latency demands of responsive, scalable applications. Comments (). Today, Iâ??m re excited to see how they use LSI.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes. ‍SaaS (Software as a Service)SaaS companies are not only limited to productivity tools and CRM systems.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes. Another category that forms a critical part of many businesses operations is monitoring tools.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Browser release notes and caniuse tables since Blink forked from WebKit in 2013 [7]. The initial implementation was removed from Blink post-fork and re-implemented on new infrastructure several years later. have been available in iOS since 2013 with iOS 7.0. Browsers sometimes ship new, desirable features simultaneously (e.g.,

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