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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

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. Greenplum features a cost-based query optimizer for large-scale, big data workloads. Query Optimization.

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in France! Over the past 10 years, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS. As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide. As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide.

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Hybrid cloud infrastructure explained: Weighing the pros, cons, and complexities

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Hybrid cloud architecture is a computing environment that shares data and applications on a combination of public clouds and on-premises private clouds. Public cloud refers to on-demand infrastructure and services provided by a third party over the public internet. With public clouds, multiple organizations share resources.

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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

Yesterday, AWS evangelist Jeff Barr wrote that AWS will be opening a region in South Korea in early 2016 that will be our 5th region in Asia Pacific. The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017).

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Hong Kong! 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.

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

All Things Distributed

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 (Seoul) Region

All Things Distributed

In November, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in South Korea. For example, Samsung Electronic Printing used AWS to deploy its Printing Apps Center in a way that didn’t require them to invest up-front capital and kept total costs quite low.

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