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.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. It is likely that the Amazon Web Services will be used by many of the participants for their compute, storage, database and other cloud resource needs. To make it easy we have free AWS usage credits available onsite for who ever needs them. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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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. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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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 ().

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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. Systems that make extensive use of caching almost all report a significant reduction in the cost of their database tier. It will be available in other AWS Regions in the coming months.

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Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

No need to acquire locks on tables, which is essential to ensure that the write traffic on the database is never blocked by our service. High availability, via standby instances across AWS Availability Zones. We currently support MySQL and Postgres, including when deployed in AWS RDS and its Aurora flavor.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Using Amazon Glacier AWS customers no longer need to worry about how to plan and manage their archiving infrastructure, unlimited archival storage is available to them with a familiar pay-as-you-go model, and with storage priced as low as 1 cent per GB it is extremely cost-effective. provides highly available and highly durable (â??designed

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All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

I am excited that today both the Route 53 , the highly available and scalable DNS service, and the Elastic Load Balancing teams are releasing new functionality that has been frequently requested by their customers: Route 53 now GA : Route 53 is now Generally Available and will provide an availability SLA of 100%. Contact Info.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

With this change, we will improve the granularity of pricing information you receive by introducing a Spot Instance price per Availability Zone rather than a Spot Instance price per Region. Customers whose bids exceed the Spot price gain access to the available Spot Instances and run as long as the bid exceeds the Spot Price.

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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.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. 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.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Today, I am very proud to be a part of the Amazon Web Services team as we truly make HPC available as an on-demand commodity for every developer to use. Jeff Barr in his blog post on the AWS developer blog has additional details and there are some great testimonials of early Cluster Compute Instances customers in the press release.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Today a powerful new feature is available for our Amazon EC2 customers: the ability to boot their instances from Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store). A wide variety of operating systems and software configurations is available for use. with new security patches installed), or add new user data. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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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. You are assured that your Reserved Instance will always be available in the Availability Zone in which you purchased it. Economies of scale. Contact Info.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Workloads from web content, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence stand out as particularly well-suited for hybrid cloud infrastructure owing to their fluctuating computational needs and scalability demands. Ready to take your database management to the next level with ScaleGrid’s cutting-edge solutions?

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

A hybrid cloud, however, combines public infrastructure and services with on-premises resources or a private data center to create a flexible, interconnected IT environment. Hybrid environments provide more options for storing and analyzing ever-growing volumes of big data and for deploying digital services.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Netflix Data Landscape Freedom & Responsibility (F&R) is the lynchpin of Netflix’s culture empowering teams to move fast to deliver on innovation and operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. As a result, a single consolidated and centralized source of truth does not exist that can be leveraged to derive data lineage truth.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g., 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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Usually Data scientists and engineers write Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) jobs and pipelines using big data compute technologies, like Spark or Presto , to process this data and periodically compute key information for a member or a video. The processed data is typically stored as data warehouse tables in AWS S3.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. been running at a traditional hosting site for many years until this preferred simple solution became available: today marks that day and I couldnt be happier about it. All of this can be done from the AWS console as well as with the AWS SDKs. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation. With the launch of AWS CloudFormation today another important step has been taken in making it easier for customers to deploy applications to the cloud. Creating and managing these environments was a pain that AWS CloudFormation set out to relieve. Comments ().

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

By Anupom Syam Background At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3 , and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. These principles reduce resource usage by being more efficient and effective while lowering the end-to-end latency in data processing.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

To do so, weve leaned heavily on the core principles from the distributed systems and database research communities and invented from there. The storage systems weve pioneered demonstrate extreme scalability while maintaining tight control over performance, availability, and cost. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

by Jun He , Akash Dwivedi , Natallia Dzenisenka , Snehal Chennuru , Praneeth Yenugutala , Pawan Dixit At Netflix, Data and Machine Learning (ML) pipelines are widely used and have become central for the business, representing diverse use cases that go beyond recommendations, predictions and data transformations.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

As a big music fan with well over 100Gb in digital music I am particularly excited that I now have access to all my digital music anywhere I go. What used to be only available in physical formats now often has digital equivalents and this digitalization is driving great new innovations. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Amazon S3 has always been a scalable, durable and available data repository for almost any customer workload. This is especially true for customers managing HD video or data-intensive instruments such as genomic sequencers. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Amazon SimpleDB has launched today with a new set of features giving the customer more control over which consistency and concurrency models to use in their database operations. These new features will make it easier to transition those applications to SimpleDB that are designed with traditional database tools in mind.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This incredible power is available for anyone to use in the usual pay-as-you-go model, removing the investment barrier that has kept many organizations from adopting GPUs for their workloads even though they knew there would be significant performance benefit. The different stages were then load balanced across the available units.

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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. We use several techniques to ensure the durability of the data our customers trust us with, and some of those (e.g.

Storage 71

Storage Cloud AWS Scalability 71

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Today, I am very happy to announce that QuickSight is now generally available in the N. When we announced QuickSight last year, we set out to help all customers—regardless of their technical skills—make sense out of their ever-growing data. Put simply, data is not always readily available and accessible to organizational end users.

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