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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

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Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

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This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. In my many conversations with customers, and with the media, I encountered surprise and excitement about the extent that European enterprises have already been using the Amazon Web Services for some time. To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

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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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Rethinking the 'production' of data

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Breuninger, a fashion department store chain steeped in tradition, has recognized this and relies on a self-developed e-commerce platform in the AWS Cloud. Today, developers of technology (for example medical technology, software) and platform operators (social media enablers, credit card companies) are at the top.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to South Africa!

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Expanding the AWS Cloud—An AWS Region is coming to South Africa! Today, I am excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in South Africa! AWS is committed to South Africa's transformation. This news marks the 23rd AWS Region that we have announced globally. We have a long history in South Africa.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

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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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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - All Things.

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These can be incidental tasks, such as the analysis of a particular dataset, or tasks where the amount of work to be done is almost never finished, such as media conversion from a Hollywoods studios movie vault, or web crawling for a search indexing company. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Economies of scale.

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