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

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Earlier this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in Montreal, Quebec. 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.

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. We have already seen customers successfully run HPC workloads, Hadoop-based jobs (as shown in the BackType case study), and testing simulations (as shown in the BrowserMob case study) on Spot. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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