All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Today, I am happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Italy! The AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the 25th AWS Region that we've announced globally. It's the sixth AWS Region in Europe, joining existing regions in France, Germany, Ireland, the UK, and the new Region that we recently announced in Sweden.

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 -All the talks and videos I could find… Las Vegas MSG Sphere under construction next door to the Venetian Sands Expo Center — Photo by Adrian This blog post is long overdue — I spent too long trying to find time to watch all the videos, and finally gave up and listed a few below that I haven’t seen.

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Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 31, 2023

I joined AWS about seven years ago, when it was growing fast, there was headcount and flexibility in hiring, and Amazon was famously cheap about the office space it occupied. Innovation goes away, micromanagement appears and everyone gets less useful work done. I haven’t seen a good way to gradually manage this situation.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS EU (Paris) Region, our 18th technology infrastructure Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. The cloud is an opportunity to stay competitive in each of these domains by giving companies freedom to innovate quickly.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Today, I am happy to announce the general availability of AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co. To comply with China's legal and regulatory requirements, AWS has formed a strategic technology collaboration with NWCD to operate and provide services from the AWS China (Ningxia) Region.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I’m helping manage AWS contributions to the project, as we build an open source data lake and analysis service that can be used to model climate related asset risks for investors. AWS is supporting customers who are working to change the way they operate and build more sustainable products. Orange mid-day sky at San Gregorio Beach?—?smoky

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! Based in Bahrain, this will be the first Region for AWS in the Middle East. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally. 2017 continues a busy year for AWS in the Middle East.

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All Things Distributed

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. In addition to its goal of reducing energy costs, Shell needed to be more agile in deploying IT services and planning for user demand.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

As regular readers of this letter will know, our energy at Amazon comes from the desire to impress customers rather than the zeal to best competitors. AWS has built a reputation over the years for the breadth and depth of our services and the pace of our innovation with 280 features released in 2013.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

photo taken by Adrian in Monterey County, California This year at Map Camp , I was happy to have my Amazon Sustainability team sponsor the Sustainability track, sharing the support with Liam Maxwell of AWS UK Public Sector, and to share the online stage with two awesome speakers, the famous economist Carlota Perez?—?author

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.

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Testsigma

JULY 22, 2021

And if I could just talk about these users and some of the barriers they face, or what it’s like to go through a digital experience as they do, we’ll learn an awful lot! I decided to work full-time for the community and solve their problems through my innovations. Where do you get this energy from? That’s why I do it.

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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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Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

AWS Lambda) along with your technology choices (e.g. Team organisation also impacts the types of innovation that can occur and the morale of your engineering organisation. Priorities is about understanding the value of each part of the modernisation and focusing energy where the payback is greatest. Java) and conventions (e.g.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2019

For the most recent hack day, we channeled our creative energy towards our studio efforts. The most important value of hack days is that they support a culture of innovation. The goal remained the same: team up with new colleagues and have fun while learning, creating, and experimenting.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company. I saw Erik Fisher last time I was in Budapest, and Constantin Gonzalez later became one of the first AWS solutions architects in Germany, too many names to mention.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Furthermore, they felt that this was undifferentiated heavy lifting and would rather focus their energy on running their applications and growing their businesses. Our customers have told us that scaling and operating these data storage systems is very challenging. Building modern applications has never been easier.

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