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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All Things Distributed

APRIL 17, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud: Faster, More Flexible Queries with DynamoDB. This gives you the ability to perform richer queries while still meeting the low-latency demands of responsive, scalable applications. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Today, Iâ??m

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS. The Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a highly scalable, reliable and elastic queuing service that just works. Similarly, AWS customers have been using SQS in interesting ways. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS re: Invent. Hundreds of thousands of businesses in over 190 countries are relying on AWS to support some or all of their business and IT needs. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 09 May 2012 02:00 PM. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. The company also releases MongoDB Atlas, promoting it as the most cost-effective way to run MongoDB in the Cloud. Some might say this marked the beginning of MongoDB’s “cloud push” escalation.) 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 13, 2013

This year as I hosted AWS Summits in 12 different cities around the world, I met thousands of developers who are building powerful new applications for smartphones, tablets and other connected devices, all running mobile cloud backends on AWS. Announcing Amazon SNS with Mobile Push. per million push notifications ($0.50

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

If you’re using PostgreSQL in the cloud, there’s a good chance you’re spending more than you need in order to get the results you need for your business. Usage reduction: What to look for to reduce PostgreSQL cloud costs The first step in cost reduction is to use what you need and not more. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. 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.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 1, 2021

Versatile, feature-rich cloud computing environments such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP have been a game-changer. Keeping track of performance, response time, and efficiency can be cumbersome, especially when teams use a multicloud strategy that spans cloud environments and on-premises systems.

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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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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer. Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services. The job of a cloud is to run workloads.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. samred : Jorgensen didn't mince words: he blamed the drop in the [EA] series' uptake by the developers' focus on a single-player campaign, as opposed to having a promised battle royale mode ready for fans in time for the game's launch.

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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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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Cloud-based technologies are on a rise today. Even if I deviate a bit from core IT fundamentals, the pandemic of 2021 made cloud tech a hero. It taught us how just an easy monthly subscription can give us access to thousands of movies, games, and live events such as the Tokyo Olympics via streaming.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Amazon ML is highly scalable and can generate billions of predictions, and serve those predictions in real-time and at high throughput. Details on the AWS Blog. AWS has been offering a range of storage solutions: objects, block storage, databases, archiving, etc. Details on the AWS Blog. The Amazon Elastic File System.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Today, we added two important choices for customers running high performance apps in the cloud: support for Redis in Amazon ElastiCache and a new high memory database instance (db.cr1.8xlarge) for Amazon RDS. AWS offers its customers a choice of different database services, each optimized for different workloads.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. DynamoDB is the result of 15 years of learning in the areas of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services. All Things Distributed. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

DynamoDB Streams is the enabling technology behind two other features announced today: cross-region replication maintains identical copies of DynamoDB tables across AWS regions with push-button ease, and triggers execute AWS Lambda functions on streams, allowing you to respond to changing data conditions. DynamoDB Streams.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

As I have talked about before, one of the reasons why we built Amazon DynamoDB was that Amazon was pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and we were unable to sustain the availability, scalability, and performance needs that our growing Amazon.com business demanded. The opposite is true.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. Going beyond Key-Value. DynamoDB Refresher.

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O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The problem is that you don’t necessarily know if anyone is even going to want to use your new product, and even if you do become successful enough to require a highly scalable architecture, the thing you end up delivering to your users might be very different from what you started building in the first place.

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High Scalability

MARCH 15, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. 300% : AWS IoT growth per year; 74% : mobile games user spending in the App store; 31.4 were using Google Cloud Storage, but given too many issues big and small over the year, we’ll be migrating to AWS S3 for storage going forward.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS. In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Similarly, relationships are essential in many other use cases such as financial modeling, risk analysis, genome research, search, gaming, and others. Like many AWS innovations, the desire to build a solution for a scalable graph database came from Amazon’s retail business. Graph databases at Amazon.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Custom HPC optimized CPUs and GPUs will become the mainstream in the next few years, with chiplets based on the ARM and RISC-V pattern libraries and tooling, with competition between cloud providers, startups and the large systems vendors. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Throughout the web’s history, static websites have always been a popular option due to their simplicity, scalability, and security. In addition, they introduced a hosted version of MovableType in 2003 called TypePad to compete with other popular cloud platforms. Twitch developer documentation hosted on AWS, edited on CloudCannon.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Representational State Transfer ( REST ) is a well-established, logical choice: it defines a set of constraints that developers follow to make content accessible in a performant, reliable and scalable fashion. Plus, it’s even supported on Fastly’s edge cloud. It's currently used on Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Cloudfront , Linux (e.g.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Representational State Transfer ( REST ) is a well-established, logical choice: it defines a set of constraints that developers follow to make content accessible in a performant, reliable and scalable fashion. Also check DNS Performance comparison and Cloud Peformance Comparison. Plus, it’s even supported on Fastly’s edge cloud.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Representational State Transfer ( REST ) is a well-established, logical choice: it defines a set of constraints that developers follow to make content accessible in a performant, reliable and scalable fashion. For most web apps, JavaScript is a better fit, and WebAssembly is best used for computationally intensive web apps, such as web games.

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