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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

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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. A local AWS Region enables companies to deploy a global cloud platform for their operations. Comments ().

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Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS.

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Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. The AWS Import/Export team has announced today that they have expanded their functionality significantly by adding Import into Amazon EBS. AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet.

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

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Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The concept of regions gives AWS customers control over the placement of their resources and services. Cloud First. The US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy lays out a â??Cloud

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

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Additionally customers are not restricted to AWS services; they can mix-and-match services from other providers to best meet their needs. There are some excellent platforms running on AWS that do precisely this; Ruby on Rails developers have Heroku.

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

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Expanding the Cloud â?? Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Today, Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Several prominent South American customers have been using AWS since the early days. Comments (). Contact Info.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. For more hands-on information and to get started right away, see Jeff Barrs posting on the AWS Developer Blog. Expanding the Cloud â??

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