All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern California). We have expanded the AWS footprint in the US and starting today a new AWS Region is available for use: US-West (Northern California). AWS is committed to making its services available at low cost. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. Today Amazon Web Services has taken another important step in serving customers worldwide: the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region is now launched. The new Singapore Region offers customers in APAC lower-latency access to AWS services. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Given the widespread use of caching in many of the applications in the AWS Cloud, a caching service had been high on the request list of our customers. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

With this change, we will improve the granularity of pricing information you receive by introducing a Spot Instance price per Availability Zone rather than a Spot Instance price per Region. Customers whose bids exceed the Spot price gain access to the available Spot Instances and run as long as the bid exceeds the Spot Price.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

I am excited that today both the Route 53 , the highly available and scalable DNS service, and the Elastic Load Balancing teams are releasing new functionality that has been frequently requested by their customers: Route 53 now GA : Route 53 is now Generally Available and will provide an availability SLA of 100%. Contact Info.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 3, 2011

Next to customer visits I will take part in a number of events organized by AWS and by our partners. This week in Japan there are three public events planned: July 4 - AWS HPC Night at Fuji Soft Hall in Akihabara. Next weekend I will travel to Australia where we will have two " Navigating the Cloud with AWS" Events.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. Route 53 has the business properties that you have come to expect from an AWS service: fully self-service and programmable, with transparent pay-as-you-go pricing and no minimum usage commitments.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Today, I am very proud to be a part of the Amazon Web Services team as we truly make HPC available as an on-demand commodity for every developer to use. Jeff Barr in his blog post on the AWS developer blog has additional details and there are some great testimonials of early Cluster Compute Instances customers in the press release.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Today a powerful new feature is available for our Amazon EC2 customers: the ability to boot their instances from Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store). A wide variety of operating systems and software configurations is available for use. with new security patches installed), or add new user data. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Spot Instances are an innovation that is made possible by the unparalleled economies of scale created by the tremendous growth of the AWS Infrastructure Services. You are assured that your Reserved Instance will always be available in the Availability Zone in which you purchased it. Economies of scale. Contact Info.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

Service Segmentation: The ease of the cloud deployments has led to the organic growth of multiple AWS accounts, deployment practices, interconnection practices, etc. Network Availability: The expected continued growth of our ecosystem makes it difficult to understand our network bottlenecks and potential limits we may be reaching.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g., In AWS’ quest to enable the best data storage options for engineers, we have built several innovative database solutions like Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift. Big data challenges.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy. The processed data is typically stored as data warehouse tables in AWS S3.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. been running at a traditional hosting site for many years until this preferred simple solution became available: today marks that day and I couldnt be happier about it. All of this can be done from the AWS console as well as with the AWS SDKs. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation. With the launch of AWS CloudFormation today another important step has been taken in making it easier for customers to deploy applications to the cloud. Creating and managing these environments was a pain that AWS CloudFormation set out to relieve. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

As a big music fan with well over 100Gb in digital music I am particularly excited that I now have access to all my digital music anywhere I go. What used to be only available in physical formats now often has digital equivalents and this digitalization is driving great new innovations. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Amazon S3 has always been a scalable, durable and available data repository for almost any customer workload. This is especially true for customers managing HD video or data-intensive instruments such as genomic sequencers. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This incredible power is available for anyone to use in the usual pay-as-you-go model, removing the investment barrier that has kept many organizations from adopting GPUs for their workloads even though they knew there would be significant performance benefit. The different stages were then load balanced across the available units.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

There are many factors that come into play when you need to meet stringent availability and performance requirements under ultra-scalable conditions. If you need to achieve high-availability and scalable performance, you will need to resort to data replication techniques. Data Consistency Models in the Amazon Services.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

The goal for operational excellence in Amazon S3 (and for all other AWS services) is that it should be "indistinguishable from perfect". For example to ensure availability of data, the data is replicated over multiple locations such that failure modes are independent of each other. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Today, I am very happy to announce that QuickSight is now generally available in the N. When we announced QuickSight last year, we set out to help all customers—regardless of their technical skills—make sense out of their ever-growing data. Put simply, data is not always readily available and accessible to organizational end users.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Last week, I wrote a blog about helping the machine learning scientist community select the right deep learning framework from among many we support on AWS such as MxNet, TensorFlow, Caffe, etc. Developers can build, test, and deploy chatbots directly from the AWS Management Console. Amazon Lex.

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