article thumbnail

Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so. The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017. Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in France!

AWS 166
article thumbnail

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

All Things Distributed

Since then, AWS has added another PoP in Palermo in 2017. 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.

AWS 167
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Expanding the AWS Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to South Africa!

All Things Distributed

The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2017, we brought the Amazon Global Network to Africa, through AWS Direct Connect. This has helped unearth innovative startups like Asoriba.

AWS 167
article thumbnail

Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

All Things Distributed

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more. Public sector.

AWS 124
article thumbnail

As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. 2017 continues a busy year for AWS in the Middle East. The Region will be in the heart of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and we're aiming to have it ready by early 2019.

Cloud 152
article thumbnail

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

All Things Distributed

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.

Internet 128
article thumbnail

5 tips for architecting fast data applications

O'Reilly Software

A message-oriented implementation requires an efficient messaging backbone that facilitates the exchange of data in a reliable and secure way with the lowest latency possible. Another element they have in common is that they are both consuming and producing messages. Apache Kafka is currently the leading project in this area.