All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Hadoop is quickly becoming the preferred tool for this type of large scale data analytics.

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Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Today, Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Several prominent South American customers have been using AWS since the early days. RAMA , a Brazilian financial services firm and AWS customer : â??The

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The concept of regions gives AWS customers control over the placement of their resources and services. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics.

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AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Free at Last - A Fully Self-Sustained Blog Running in Amazon S3. In a follow up to the last blog post I have removed the last two dependencies this blog had on running a server somewhere: comments are now served by Disqus and search is now handled by Bing. blog comments powered by Disqus. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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AWS Storage Big Data Servers 78

All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. The AWS Import/Export team has announced today that they have expanded their functionality significantly by adding Import into Amazon EBS. AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. blog comments powered by Disqus.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Today Amazon Web Services is expanding its world-wide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region located in Tokyo, Japan. The advanced Asia Pacific network infrastructure also makes the AWS Tokyo Region a viable low-latency option for customers from South Korea.

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AWS Cloud Games Latency 112

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. Any work we can do to improve over these dimensions generates long term benefits for AWS customers. Our solution architects work with customers to look for opportunities to exploit elasticity in AWS setups which can lead to significant savings in operational cost. Comments ().

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AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers. blog comments powered by Disqus.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Additionally customers are not restricted to AWS services; they can mix-and-match services from other providers to best meet their needs. There are some excellent platforms running on AWS that do precisely this; Ruby on Rails developers have Heroku. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

Elastic Load Balancing now provides support for EC2 Security Groups such that customers that hosts their Internet accessible application instances behind ELB can build security rules that for example restrict traffic to only the ELB instances that front them. Introducing a new Internet protocol is not a simple feat. Contact Info.

Internet 114

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

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. Quite often "The Cloud" is portrayed as something magically transparent that lives somewhere in the internet.

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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. blog comments powered by Disqus. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. 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

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. blog comments powered by Disqus.

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Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

For an internet road warrior they are a complete nightmare. For a while this was great but as this doesnt include web and application internet traffic I started to see a rise in my roaming costs which T-Mobile charges at $15/MB. Theyre not even an AWS customer :-). blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.

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Wireless AWS Internet Internet 107

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

A good example is the comments section on this blog; a few lines of JavaScript and these pages have a dynamic nature with comments, trackbacks and social media discussion showing up as they happen. But I really want a setup that allows me to thinker with the blog where ever I am (e.g. at 30,000 feet). Which suits me just fine.

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Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Like many folks who started down the path of using real-time micro-blogging services (read: twitter ) the convenience of those platforms has made that sharing happens there instead of on the blogs we (used to) keep. That was a mistake which I will try to correct in the coming months as Ill get back into blogging mode.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

While cleaning out the digital attic I ran into this drawing that Hugh MacLeod (aka "gapingvoid") made for me in reponse to a storm-in-a-teacup about blogging Amazon. blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Syndication.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

To get started using Spot or for more details visit the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance web page, the AWS developer blog , and the EC2 Release Notes. blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

With existing customers I get a change to dive deep on their AWS usage and understand what works well and where we can do better. AWS Solutions Architect Matt Tavis will present on " Architecting for the Cloud ". AWS Startup Event in Tel Aviv on October 12 with customers Porticor , SemantiNet , Live Definition. . | Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

There were blog posts by Jeff Barr The Cluster GPU Instance and James Hamilton HPC in the Cloud with GPGPUs , as well as my background posting: Expanding the Cloud - Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances. blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

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. blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

For more details on the new boot features visit the Amazon EC2 detail page and the posting on the AWS developer blog. blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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AWS Storage Operating System Cloud 60

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. Price History : Amazon EC2 provides a history of the Spot Price for each instance type in each Region via the AWS Management Console and the APIs. Economies of scale.

Cloud 63

Cloud AWS Storage Innovation 63

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Because my blog is almost completely static content I wanted to run in this very simple configuration since the launch of Amazon S3. Because my blog is almost completely static content I wanted to run in this very simple configuration since the launch of Amazon S3. Comments ().

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AWS Website Storage Servers 134

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. You can enable the DynamoDB Streams feature for a table with just a few clicks using the AWS Management Console, or you can use the DynamoDB API. DynamoDB Streams.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

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

Given that I have frequently written about many of these technologies on this blog I asked investor relations to be allowed to reprint it here. blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

In fact, this is been proven by our customers as Amazon Aurora remains the fastest growing service in AWS history. That learning is at the heart of this blog post—databases are built for a purpose and matching the use case with the database will help you write high-performance, scalable, and more functional applications faster.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

Our smart phones and tablets are obvious examples, but many other devices are quickly gaining these capabilities; TV Sets and Hifi systems are internet enabled, and soon our treadmills and automobiles will be equally plugged into the digital world. blog comments powered by Disqus. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers. The goal for operational excellence in Amazon S3 (and for all other AWS services) is that it should be "indistinguishable from perfect". blog comments powered by Disqus.

Storage 71

Storage Cloud AWS Scalability 71

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For more information on Multipart Upload and managing large objects in Amazon S3 , see Jeff Barrs blog posts on Amazon S3 Multipart Upload and Large Object Support as well as the Amazon S3 Developer Guide. blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter. More information.

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