All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

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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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. 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. Just dropping your website in an S3 bucket brings all that power to you. And it is not just purely static websites. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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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. To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. These sensors create massive amounts of geological data.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

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. Route 53 provides Authoritative DNS functionality implemented using a world-wide network of highly-available DNS servers. No lock-in.

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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

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. I have used a bucket policy to make all documents world readable, but you could create one that restricts it to referrers, network address range, time of day, etc. All Things Distributed.

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APRIL 27, 2011

We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

By supporting such large object sizes, Amazon S3 better enables a variety of interesting big data use cases. You can create parallel uploads to better utilize your available bandwidth and even stream data into Amazon S3 as its being created. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Starting today Amazon EMR can take advantage of the Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU instances, giving customers ever more powerful components to base the large scale data processing and analysis on. Also more details can be found on the AWS Developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Where to go from here?

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Amazon Cloudfront is the Content Delivery Network (CDN) that is dead simple to use both from a technology and a business point of view. You can find several websites marveling about how simple it is to CDN enable your content with amazon Cloudfront. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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MAY 18, 2010

Its use cases span the whole storage spectrum; from enterprise database backup to media distribution, from consumer file storage to genomics datasets, from image serving for websites to telemetry storage for NASA. Other insights in the use of this option can be read on the AWS developer blog. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Eric Brewer of UC Berkeley summarized these challenges in what has been called the CAP Theorem , which states that of the three properties of shared-data systems--data consistency, system availability, and tolerance to network partitions--only two can be achieved at any given time. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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