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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

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Using Parallel Query with Amazon Aurora for MySQL

Percona

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. AWS Aurora (based on MySQL 5.6) AWS Aurora (based on MySQL 5.6) I will compare AWS Aurora with MySQL (Percona Server) 5.6 With faster disks (i.e. MySQL on ec2.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical. It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. More after jump!

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