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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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

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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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

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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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

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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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

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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All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. Any work we can do to improve over these dimensions generates long term benefits for AWS customers. Our solution architects work with customers to look for opportunities to exploit elasticity in AWS setups which can lead to significant savings in operational cost. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. When handling large amounts of complex data, or big data, chances are that your main machine might start getting crushed by all of the data it has to process in order to produce your analytics results.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

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. Quite often "The Cloud" is portrayed as something magically transparent that lives somewhere in the internet.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

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). AWS is committed to making its services available at low cost. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer. This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

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. To make it easy we have free AWS usage credits available onsite for who ever needs them. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

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. Unlocking the benefits of the cloud for the HPC community. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

Theyre not even an AWS customer :-). Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Expanding the Cloud â?? Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Expanding the Cloud â?? Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. Recent Entries.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

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. Consistently we have lowered compute, storage and bandwidth prices based on such cost savings. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 3, 2011

Next to customer visits I will take part in a number of events organized by AWS and by our partners. This week in Japan there are three public events planned: July 4 - AWS HPC Night at Fuji Soft Hall in Akihabara. July 5 - Cloud IT Leadership seminar on Business Continuity in partnership with Deloitte. Expanding the Cloud â??

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

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. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Expanding the Cloud â??

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Expanding the Cloud â?? Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. Recent Entries.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

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. Visiting future customers is equally exiting as you get a change to understand their current architecture, if it is a migration, and how they plan to exploit cloud services in their new setup.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

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. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Recent Entries.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Here are some the links I shared this week on twitter and facebook : Cloud Computing. Big news this week was of course the launch of Cluster GPU instances for Amazon EC2. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2010

The ecosystem of new application and platform services in the cloud is the future of application development. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments (). Recent Entries.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

with new security patches installed), or add new user data. While the instance is stopped it does not accrue any usage hours and customers are only charged for the storage associated with the Amazon EBS volume. For more details on the new boot features visit the Amazon EC2 detail page and the posting on the AWS developer blog.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. Public sector.

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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.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A data lakehouse features the flexibility and cost-efficiency of a data lake with the contextual and high-speed querying capabilities of a data warehouse. Data warehouses offer a single storage repository for structured data and provide a source of truth for organizations. How does a data lakehouse work?

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

release , we added support for physical backups and restores to significantly reduce Recovery Time Objective ( RTO ), especially for big data sets. However, the problem of losing data between backups – in other words, Recovery Point Objective (RPO) – for physical backups was not solved. spec: backup: enabled: true.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Since a few days ago this weblog serves 100% of its content directly out of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) without the need for a web server to be involved. All of this can be done from the AWS console as well as with the AWS SDKs. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

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. Creating and managing these environments was a pain that AWS CloudFormation set out to relieve.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

The storage systems weve pioneered demonstrate extreme scalability while maintaining tight control over performance, availability, and cost. For example, our Simple Storage Service, Elastic Block Store, and SimpleDB all derive their basic architecture from unique Amazon technologies. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

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. A Drive in the Cloud. Comments ().

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