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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

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We live in a world where massive volumes of data are generated from websites, connected devices and mobile apps. In such a data intensive environment, making key business decisions such as running marketing and sales campaigns, logistic planning, financial analysis and ad targeting require deriving insights from these data.

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

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After finding it cost prohibitive to use colocation centers in local markets where their users are based, iZettle decided to give up hardware. In making the switch to AWS, WOW air has saved between $30,000 and $45,000 on hardware, and software licensing. iZettle, a mobile payments startup, is also ‘all-in’ on AWS.

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

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They require companies to provision and maintain complex hardware infrastructure and invest in expensive software licenses, maintenance fees, and support fees that cost upwards of thousands of dollars per user per year. Data is automatically replicated across multiple Availability Zones for redundancy and also backed up to S3 for durability.

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