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

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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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Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS - All Things.

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Customers from various verticals (media, social gaming, mobile, news, advertisement) such as Netflix, Shazam and Scopely have used SQS in variety of use-cases requiring loose coupling and high performance. Similarly, AWS customers have been using SQS in interesting ways. s Chief Architect Adrian Cockcroft blogged â??

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

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Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. When instances are placed in a cluster they have access to low latency, non-blocking 10 Gbps networking when communicating the other instances in the cluster.

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

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Spot Instances are ideal for use cases like web and data crawling, financial analysis, grid computing, media transcoding, scientific research, and batch processing. 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. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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

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In an in-depth article on Streaming Media Dan Rayburn analyzed the impact of Amazon Cloudfront move to GA: Amazons CDN Gets More Competitive, Adds SLA, New Edge Locations, Lower Pricing. Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures.

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The Anna Key-Value Store Now Has 355x the Performance of DynamoDB for the Dollar

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New databases used to be announced seemingly every week. While database neogenesis has slowed down considerably, it has not gone necrotic. No, I don’t think that is because AWS is earning a 355x margin on DynamoDB! First, we deployed the storage engine across multiple storage media — currently RAM and flash disk.

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Titan Graph Database Integration with DynamoDB: World-class Performance, Availability, and Scale for New Workloads

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It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers. Enter graph databases. Graph databases at Amazon.

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