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AWS re:Invent 2013

All Things Distributed

Today we are kicking off AWS re:Invent 2013. After my keynote on Thursday I will host two fireside chat sessions with cloud innovators and industry influencers: First , I’ll talk with three technical startup founders. You can see the full session catalog here. Eliot Horowitz from MongoDB. Jeff Lawson from Twilio.

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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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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

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. In 2013, we launched a dedicated program called AWS Activate.

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Autonomous Cloud Enablement aka Scaling NoOps via Self-Service

Dynatrace

I think the story not only impressed the audience because of our outfits (traditional Austrian Dirndl & Lederhosen), but because we were one of the few software companies that showed actionable results of a DevOps transformation that has been discussed in our industry since 2013 when Gene Kim released his famous The Phoenix Project.

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Feeling the Customer Love for AWS - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 19 July 2013 11:00 AM. We work hard to meet our customers expectations and to continue to innovate on their behalf. They also brought with them a video that showed their appreciation on how we enable them to innovate. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().

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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. These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas. I'm excited to see the new and innovative use cases coming from our customers in Hong Kong and across Asia Pacific, all enabled by AWS.

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