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. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2011

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio , you can now deploy your.NET applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk directly from your Visual Studio environment without changing any code. Amazon RDS for SQL Server.

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The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

AWS announced a new service?—?the The general goal of SAR is to make it easier to distribute, and consume, applications that have been developed using AWS Serverless products, like Lambda. SAM itself is built on top of AWS CloudFormation ?—?Amazon’s the Serverless Application Repository (SAR)?—?at at re:Invent 2017.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

Elastic Load Balancing now provides support for EC2 Security Groups such that customers that hosts their Internet accessible application instances behind ELB can build security rules that for example restrict traffic to only the ELB instances that front them. Introducing a new Internet protocol is not a simple feat. Contact Info.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2011

Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Systems that make extensive use of caching almost all report a significant reduction in the cost of their database tier. It will be available in other AWS Regions in the coming months.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. 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

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. blog comments powered by Disqus. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

For an internet road warrior they are a complete nightmare. For a while this was great but as this doesnt include web and application internet traffic I started to see a rise in my roaming costs which T-Mobile charges at $15/MB. Theyre not even an AWS customer :-). blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

A good example is the comments section on this blog; a few lines of JavaScript and these pages have a dynamic nature with comments, trackbacks and social media discussion showing up as they happen. But I really want a setup that allows me to thinker with the blog where ever I am (e.g. at 30,000 feet). Which suits me just fine.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Many of our Big-Data customers already saw a big drop in their AWS bill last month when the cost of incoming bandwidth was dropped to $0.00. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background. blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Like many folks who started down the path of using real-time micro-blogging services (read: twitter ) the convenience of those platforms has made that sharing happens there instead of on the blogs we (used to) keep. That was a mistake which I will try to correct in the coming months as Ill get back into blogging mode.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

While cleaning out the digital attic I ran into this drawing that Hugh MacLeod (aka "gapingvoid") made for me in reponse to a storm-in-a-teacup about blogging Amazon. blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Syndication.

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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. blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. What is an MPP Database? What Exactly is Greenplum?

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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. Next weekend I will travel to Australia where we will have two " Navigating the Cloud with AWS" Events.

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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. AWS Solutions Architect Matt Tavis will present on " Architecting for the Cloud ". AWS Startup Event in Tel Aviv on October 12 with customers Porticor , SemantiNet , Live Definition. . | Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

There were blog posts by Jeff Barr The Cluster GPU Instance and James Hamilton HPC in the Cloud with GPGPUs , as well as my background posting: Expanding the Cloud - Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances. blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Jeff Barr in his blog post on the AWS developer blog has additional details and there are some great testimonials of early Cluster Compute Instances customers in the press release. blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

WordPress is the largest website builder platform in the world, supporting over 34% of all websites on the internet today. MySQL is a free open source relational database management system that is leveraged across a majority of WordPress sites, and allows you to query your data such as posts, pages, images, user profiles, and more.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter. 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.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

For more details on the new boot features visit the Amazon EC2 detail page and the posting on the AWS developer blog. blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. I am excited to share with you that today we are expanding DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers. Let me expand on each one of them.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

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. Price History : Amazon EC2 provides a history of the Spot Price for each instance type in each Region via the AWS Management Console and the APIs. Economies of scale.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. Other EC2 instance types, such as C5 or M5, use the AWS Nitro Hypervisor.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

Public cloud refers to on-demand infrastructure and services provided by a third party over the public internet. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost : This offering provides pre-configured hardware and software for customers to run native AWS computing, networking, and services on-premises in a cloud-native manner.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

A common question that I get is why do we offer so many database products? To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.

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Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should setup your MySQL hosting ? While Microsoft Azure does offer a managed solution, Azure Database, the solution has some major limitations you should know about before migrating your MySQL deployments.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB â?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Because my blog is almost completely static content I wanted to run in this very simple configuration since the launch of Amazon S3. Because my blog is almost completely static content I wanted to run in this very simple configuration since the launch of Amazon S3. Comments ().

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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. Comments ().

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. Other EC2 instance types, such as C5 or M5, use the AWS Nitro Hypervisor.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Details on the AWS Blog. AWS has been offering a range of storage solutions: objects, block storage, databases, archiving, etc. When we designed Amazon EFS we decided to build along the AWS principles: Elastic, scalable, highly available, consistent performance, secure, and cost-effective. Details on the AWS Blog.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In this blog post, we will give an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and share some of the learnings we gained along the way. While a mobile device is almost always connected to the internet and reachable, a smart TV is only online while in use. This messaging system is described in this blog post.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Given that I have frequently written about many of these technologies on this blog I asked investor relations to be allowed to reprint it here. To do so, weve leaned heavily on the core principles from the distributed systems and database research communities and invented from there. blog comments powered by Disqus. Syndication.

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