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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017). This region will provide even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users. Today, I am excited to add the United Kingdom to that list!

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

All Things Distributed

Since then, AWS has added another PoP in Palermo in 2017. The Lamborghini website was being hosted on outdated infrastructure when the company decided to boost their online presence to coincide with the launch of their Aventador J sports car. Seat Pagine Gialle currently hosts over 100,000 websites while serving the needs of over 12.5

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Percentiles don’t work: Analyzing the distribution of response times for web services

Adrian Cockcroft

The mean and percentile measurements hide this structure, but the rest of this post will show how the structure can be measured and analyzed so that you can figure out a useful model of your system, understand what is driving the long tail of latencies and come up with better SLAs and measures of capacity.

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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. Cette nouvelle région sera disponible pour les clients dès 2017.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. The Moto G4 , for example.

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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.

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Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring

Smashing Magazine

In contrast, tools like DebugBear and WebPageTest use more realistic throttling that accurately reflects network round trips on a higher-latency connection. This is high-quality data from actual website visitors, for example based on Google’s Chrome User Experience (CrUX) Report. Real usage data would be better, of course.

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