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

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in France! Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so. Over the past 10 years, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

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

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JUNE 20, 2017

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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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

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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Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system. This combination allows for the fluid movement of data and applications across different environments, facilitating shared workloads seamlessly. The tool must be compatible with your current systems.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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JANUARY 6, 2016

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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Bulldozer: Batch Data Moving from Data Warehouse to Online Key-Value Stores

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Usually Data scientists and engineers write Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) jobs and pipelines using big data compute technologies, like Spark or Presto , to process this data and periodically compute key information for a member or a video. The processed data is typically stored as data warehouse tables in AWS S3.

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Additionally, it allows them to keep their data inside of Brazil.

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

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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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

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. All Things Distributed.

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Optimizing data warehouse storage

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

By Anupom Syam Background At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3 , and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. Use cases We found several use cases where a system like AutoOptimize can bring tons of value.

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Expanding the Cloud ? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Today, Amazon Web Services has greater worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia. Many young businesses as well as established enterprises are already using AWS, many of them targeting customers globally. Comments ().

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Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern.

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). Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore.

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. Comments (). and European Regions.

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Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. Why are developers using RInK systems as part of their design? Fetching too much data in a single query (i.e.,

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. For example, the most fundamental abstraction trade-off has always been latency versus throughput. The throughput of this pipeline is more important than the latency of the individual operations. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 - All.

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. Naming is one of the fundamental concepts in Distributed Systems. By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Not just for HPC but for mission critical enterprise systems such as OLTP. Cluster Compute Instances can be grouped as cluster using a "cluster placement group" to indicate that these are instances that require low-latency, high bandwidth communication.

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. As a part of that process, we also realized that there were a number of latency sensitive or location specific use cases like Hadoop, HPC, and testing that would be ideal for Spot. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. All Things Distributed.

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Choosing Consistency - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Architecting distributed systems that need to reliably operate at world-wide scale is not a simple task. A whole field of computer science is dedicated to finding solutions for the hard problems of building reliable distributed systems. Comments ().

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This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Big news this week was of course the launch of Cluster GPU instances for Amazon EC2. Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures. Comments ().

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

Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

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Expanding the Cloud ? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

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Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore.

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