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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018.

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide. To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region

All Things Distributed

Today, I'm happy to share that the Canada (Central) Region is available for use by customers worldwide. The AWS Cloud now operates in 40 Availability Zones within 15 geographic regions around the world, with seven more Availability Zones and three more regions coming online in China, France, and the U.K. in the coming year.

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How social forces could drive blockchain demand

O'Reilly

He designed this new platform to be permission-less and free, an open space for creativity, innovation, and free expression that transcended geographic and cultural boundaries. There are projects that are exploring versions of social media, ride-sharing, and other platforms that use this approach. More equitable sharing of value.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

All Things Distributed

A whole range of innovative new services, ranging from media conversion to geo-location-context services have been developed by our customers using this flexibility and are available in the AWS ecosystem. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. In a nutshell, we want to let a thousand platforms bloom on AWS.

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Utilities, Strategic Investments, and the CIO

The Agile Manager

Each is a new take on an old theme, echoing one part of the contradiction that has riddled every business with a captive technology department: we want to minimize how much we spend on IT, and we want IT to be a source of innovation. He or she is responsible for a portfolio of technology investments made through software and digital media.

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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - All Things.

All Things Distributed

These can be incidental tasks, such as the analysis of a particular dataset, or tasks where the amount of work to be done is almost never finished, such as media conversion from a Hollywoods studios movie vault, or web crawling for a search indexing company. They can also specify the Availability Zone these Instances should be launched in.

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