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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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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. In this vision, data essentially would be “vaulted” (as in a black box) and decisions to use or sell that data would be controlled by the contributor.

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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. In one camp are those arguing that IT has become largely irrelevant.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

All Things Distributed

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. Big data challenges.

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

All Things Distributed

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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