Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 24, 2020

link] Abiade moved from Expedia to work at AWS and she presented again in 2019 at re:Invent with examples from Lyft showing how they cut the AWS spend component of their cost per ride by 40% by making cost visible and providing tools to optimize. link] For a deep dive on savings plans, this video is excellent.

Cloud 40

Cloud Social Media Healthcare Entertainment 40

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. It can receive telemetry from retail stores over the Internet using event delivery systems such as Azure IoT Event Hub, AWS, Kafka, and REST, and it can respond back to the retail stores in milliseconds.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. It can receive telemetry from retail stores over the Internet using event delivery systems such as Azure IoT Event Hub, AWS, Kafka, and REST, and it can respond back to the retail stores in milliseconds.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. It can receive telemetry from retail stores over the Internet using event delivery systems such as Azure IoT Event Hub, AWS, Kafka, and REST, and it can respond back to the retail stores in milliseconds.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

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 130

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 130

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

For example, AWS customers use SQS for asynchronous communication pipelines, buffer queues for databases, asynchronous work queues, and moving latency out of highly responsive requests paths. Similarly, AWS customers have been using SQS in interesting ways.

Efficiency 107

Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability 107

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Given that AWS is a pioneer in building and operating these services world-wide, these lessons have been of crucial importance to our business. AWS helps its customers do this too. APIs are forever.

AWS 147

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 147

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. But most Azure and GCP users also use AWS; the reverse isn’t necessarily true. Amazon and AWS Ascendant. If Microsoft and Google really are coming on strong, they aren’t dislodging Amazon and AWS.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Choosing your database architecture may be the most critical decision you’ll make and has a disproportionate impact on the performance, scalability, and availability of your app. No single database architecture or solution can meet all of Amazon.com’s or our customers’ needs.

Cache 131

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 131

High Scalability

AUGUST 3, 2018

David Rosenthal : The margins on AWS, averaging 24.75% over the last twelve quarters, are what enables Amazon to run the US retail business averaging under 3% margin and the international business averaging -3.7% margin over the same period. asymco : Apple Q4 Sales Guidance $60B-$62B vs $52.58B year ago, Gross Margin 38-38.5%

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

In supply chain management, connections between airports, warehouses, and retail aisles are critical for cost and time optimization. Like many AWS innovations, the desire to build a solution for a scalable graph database came from Amazon’s retail business. Graph databases at Amazon.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

When designing a new application that will operate in the AWS cloud, first take a look at DynamoDB when selecting a database. DynamoDB continues to be embraced for workloads in Gaming, Ad-tech, Mobile, Web Apps, and other segments where scale and performance are critical.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130