All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. Essent currently hosts all of their public facing websites and customer self-service portals in the AWS cloud. Shell''s scientists, especially the geophysicists and drilling engineers, frequently use cloud computing to run models.

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Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

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. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

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Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. With the launch of the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, companies can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services directly connected to Japanese networks.

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AWS Cloud Games Latency 112

All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. With this new functionality AWS Import/Export now supports importing data directly into Amazon EBS snapshots. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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AWS Cloud Storage Internet 96

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Many of us are lucky enough to be on mobile plans which allow several gigabytes of data transfer per month. Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% Mbps upload.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The naming system that we are all most familiar with in the internet is the Domain Name System (DNS) that manages the naming of the many different entities in our global network; its most common use is to map a name to an IP address, but it also provides facilities for aliases, finding mail servers, managing security keys, and much more.

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Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. The public beta release of AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports a container for Java developers using the familiar Linux / Apache Tomcat application stack. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

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AWS Cloud Java Operating System 115

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. I have used a bucket policy to make all documents world readable, but you could create one that restricts it to referrers, network address range, time of day, etc. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3.

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AWS Website Storage Servers 134

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. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

By supporting such large object sizes, Amazon S3 better enables a variety of interesting big data use cases. You can create parallel uploads to better utilize your available bandwidth and even stream data into Amazon S3 as its being created. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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AWS Big Data Scalability Storage 80

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Its use cases span the whole storage spectrum; from enterprise database backup to media distribution, from consumer file storage to genomics datasets, from image serving for websites to telemetry storage for NASA. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3.

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Storage Cloud AWS Scalability 71

All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Amazon Cloudfront is the Content Delivery Network (CDN) that is dead simple to use both from a technology and a business point of view. You can find several websites marveling about how simple it is to CDN enable your content with amazon Cloudfront. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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Media AWS Storage Big Data 60

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Starting today Amazon EMR can take advantage of the Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU instances, giving customers ever more powerful components to base the large scale data processing and analysis on. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Where to go from here?

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AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Eric Brewer of UC Berkeley summarized these challenges in what has been called the CAP Theorem , which states that of the three properties of shared-data systems--data consistency, system availability, and tolerance to network partitions--only two can be achieved at any given time. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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AWS Latency Database Scalability 69