Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

Adding video to your website immediately adds value, but also a new level of complexity to your web development. The great thing today is that you can use the same technologies used by Netflix or Hulu to deliver your videos. It almost sounds like magic, but let’s look at the technology and how it works. Doug Sillars.

Media 110

Media Speed Network Analytics 110

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.

Big Data 111

Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111

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.

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data 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

AWS 114

AWS Latency Storage Big Data 114

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.

AWS 112

AWS Cloud Games Latency 112

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.

AWS 96

AWS Cloud Storage Internet 96

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 ().

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

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. To make it easy we have free AWS usage credits available onsite for who ever needs them. There is one requirement; you have to be "hacking" using the AWS APIs.

AWS 93

AWS Internet Internet Storage 93

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. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

AWS 75

AWS Database Storage Scalability 75

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

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 ().

AWS 115

AWS Cloud Java Operating System 115

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Just dropping your website in an S3 bucket brings all that power to you. And it is not just purely static websites. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

Servers 126

Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

AWS 60

AWS Cloud Latency Storage 60

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 ().

AWS 61

AWS Cloud Latency Storage 61

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.

Cloud 117

Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). I often get to meet, discuss, and learn from innovators how they are using AWS to deliver transformative applications to their users, customers and partners. Troy: We moved our service from internal servers to AWS. And how about you Troy?

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

Theyre not even an AWS customer :-). Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. blog comments powered by Disqus.

Wireless 107

Wireless AWS Internet Internet 107

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All postings.

AWS 78

AWS Storage Big Data Servers 78

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

Many AWS customers use Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) to front their Internet facing applications. More information can found on the Elastic Load Balancing and the Route 53 detail pages and on the two blog posts on the AWS developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

Internet 114

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

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.

AWS 67

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 67

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 ().

AWS 75

AWS Storage Cloud Best Practices 75

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All postings.

AWS 60

AWS Storage Big Data Scalability 60

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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

AWS 85

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 85

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. All postings.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I did write for those occasions where I thought additional background on AWS service and feature launches was relevant, but beyond that not much materialized. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. All postings. Recent Entries.

AWS 69

AWS Storage Big Data Scalability 69

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

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. The Domain Name System is a wonderful practical piece of technology; it is a fundamental building block of our modern internet. No lock-in.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2010

Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All postings.

AWS 60

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 60

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All postings.

AWS 67

AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 67

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Dynatrace AWS monitoring gives you an overview of the resources that are used in your AWS infrastructure along with their historical usage. And because Dynatrace can consume CloudWatch metrics, almost all your AWS usage information is available to you within Dynatrace. Further reading about Business Analytics : .

Analytics 241

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 241

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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Contact Info.

AWS 60

AWS Storage Operating System Cloud 60

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Similar to AWS Lambda , Azure Functions is a serverless compute service by Microsoft that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions (triggers), such as an order arriving on an IoT system, or a specific queue receiving a new message. Dynatrace news. What is Azure Functions? Making the best use of Azure Functions.

Azure 137

Azure Serverless IoT Lambda 137

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

APRIL 27, 2011

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. 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.

Technology 151

Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Dynatrace AWS m onitoring gives you an overview of the resources that are used in your AWS infrastructure along with their historical usage. And b ecause Dynatrace can consume CloudWatch metrics, almost all your AWS usage information is a vailable to you with in Dynatrace. . Digital Business Analytics.

Analytics 135

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 135

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. All of this can be done from the AWS console as well as with the AWS SDKs. More details about the website feature of Amazon S3 can be found here and in Jeff Barrs blog post on the AWS developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

AWS 134

AWS Website Storage Servers 134

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

We live in a world where massive volumes of data are generated from websites, connected devices and mobile apps. 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.

Cloud 137

Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 137

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

These include popular technologies such as web servers and web applications, along with advanced solutions like distributed data stores and containerized microservices. This makes it ideal not only for regular scalability but also for advanced analytics with intricate workload management capabilities.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130