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Three Other Models of Computer System Performance: Part 1

ACM Sigarch

With two blog posts, we argue for more use of simple models beyond Amdahl’s Law. Computer systems, from the Internet-of-Things devices to datacenters, are complex and optimizing them can enhance capability and save money. To this end, we present three simple models that we find useful like Amdahl’s Law, split here into two blog posts.

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

This new Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low-latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in South America. The new Sao Paulo Region provides better latency to South America, which enables AWS customers to deliver higher performance services to their South American end-users.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

All Things Distributed

Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. The advanced Asia Pacific network infrastructure also makes the AWS Tokyo Region a viable low-latency option for customers from South Korea. blog comments powered by Disqus.

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Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 - All.

All Things Distributed

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. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. The Domain Name System is a wonderful practical piece of technology; it is a fundamental building block of our modern internet.

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

There are different considerations when deciding where to allocate resources with latency and cost being the two obvious ones, but compliance sometimes plays an important role as well. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.

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Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern.

All Things Distributed

This new Region consists of multiple Availability Zones and provides low-latency access to the AWS services from for example the Bay Area. blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

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In particular this has been true for applications based on algorithms - often MPI-based - that depend on frequent low-latency communication and/or require significant cross sectional bandwidth. blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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