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Expanding the Cloud – The Second AWS GovCloud (US) Region, AWS GovCloud (US-East)

All Things Distributed

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, our 19th global infrastructure Region, is now available for use by customers in the US. With this launch, AWS now provides 57 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong SAR, and Stockholm expected to come online by 2020.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

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Greenplum has a uniquely designed data pipeline that can efficiently stream data from the disk to the CPU, without relying on the data fitting into RAM memory, as explained in their Greenplum Next Generation Big Data Platform: Top 5 reasons article. Query Optimization. Let’s walk through the top use cases for Greenplum: Analytics.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

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AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it.

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