All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Cloud-based technologies are on a rise today. Even if I deviate a bit from core IT fundamentals, the pandemic of 2021 made cloud tech a hero. This is just a small example that we all can relate to and understand the cloud. This is just a small example that we all can relate to and understand the cloud.

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Testsigma

MAY 14, 2021

Cloud-based testing has become quite integral these days. Most businesses have already done the shift towards cloud-based testing. With cloud-based testing, everything resides on the cloud and therefore the testing approach also changes where all testing related activities are done on the cloud and IT is delivered as a service.

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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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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. Big data challenges.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. For more details on AWS in Japan see [link].

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All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. .

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Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. By Werner Vogels on 14 December 2011 07:00 PM.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. It will be available in other AWS Regions in the coming months.

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Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Today, Amazon Web Services has greater worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia. Please also visit the AWS developer blog for more great stories from our Australian customers and partners.

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Cloud AWS Ecommerce Latency 117

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. All of this can be done from the AWS console as well as with the AWS SDKs. More details about the website feature of Amazon S3 can be found here and in Jeff Barrs blog post on the AWS developer blog.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. Any work we can do to improve over these dimensions generates long term benefits for AWS customers. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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). Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? In Amazon Glacier data is stored as archives, which are uploaded to Glacier and organized in vaults, which customers can control access to using the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service. All Things Distributed.

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Storage Cloud AWS Media 122

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2. Today, Amazon Web Services took very an important step in unlocking the advantages of cloud computing for a very important application area. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53. 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

MARCH 28, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Music to my Ears - Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player. Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player enable customers to securely and reliably store music in the cloud and play it on any Android phone, tablet, Mac or PC, wherever they are.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Storage Cloud AWS Scalability 71

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. If you have a largely static site you can rely on the enormous power of S3 to make serving your content highly scalable and storing it extremely durable. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The storage systems weve pioneered demonstrate extreme scalability while maintaining tight control over performance, availability, and cost. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Many AWS customers use Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) to front their Internet facing applications. More information can found on the Elastic Load Balancing and the Route 53 detail pages and on the two blog posts on the AWS developer blog. Comments ().

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Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming. The one thing that I have always struggled with during my travels are the data plans of the cell phone companies. Theyre not even an AWS customer :-). Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Wireless AWS Internet Internet 107

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Big Just Got Bigger - 5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3. Amazon S3 has always been a scalable, durable and available data repository for almost any customer workload. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud â??

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Expanding the Cloud â??

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AWS Storage Big Data Servers 78

All Things Distributed

JULY 3, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Next to customer visits I will take part in a number of events organized by AWS and by our partners. Next to customer visits I will take part in a number of events organized by AWS and by our partners. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. To get started using Spot or for more details visit the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance web page, the AWS developer blog , and the EC2 Release Notes. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. 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. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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Cloud AWS Storage Innovation 63

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. With existing customers I get a change to dive deep on their AWS usage and understand what works well and where we can do better. With existing customers I get a change to dive deep on their AWS usage and understand what works well and where we can do better.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Expanding the Cloud â??

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I did write for those occasions where I thought additional background on AWS service and feature launches was relevant, but beyond that not much materialized. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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