All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

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. The advanced Asia Pacific network infrastructure also makes the AWS Tokyo Region a viable low-latency option for customers from South Korea.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

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. AWS re: Invent is our inaugural global customer and partner conference that will be held November 27-29 at The Venetian in Las Vegas. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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High Scalability

MARCH 15, 2019

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. Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

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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

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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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2 change the HPC game for two important reasons: Access to scalable on-demand capacity. 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. More information.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] , Oct 2022 [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] , accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

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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

MAY 19, 2021

FaaS takes the game one more step ahead and frees the architects and developers from server and infrastructure responsibilities. So, how do you select one of the choices that are presented to you on the internet? You can also integrate Testsigma with Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Source: Smart Data Collective. Sign up Now.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical. More after jump!

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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. You can enable the DynamoDB Streams feature for a table with just a few clicks using the AWS Management Console, or you can use the DynamoDB API. DynamoDB Streams.

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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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. It’s safe to say WordPress, the platform now powering 40% of the internet, won that battle, but MovableType paved the way for Jamstack CMSs in the future. But, when it worked, it was magical.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The disincentive to game service pricing levels in order to create short-term profits at the expense of long-term investment will be overwhelming. For example, AWS created Nitro. Would Nitro have been invented if AWS was restricted to being a platform provider?

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

In fact, this is been proven by our customers as Amazon Aurora remains the fastest growing service in AWS history. We are increasingly seeing customers wanting to build Internet-scale applications that require diverse data models. The opposite is true. What we experienced at Amazon.com was using a database beyond its intended purpose.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

DynamoDB continues to be embraced for workloads in Gaming, Ad-tech, Mobile, Web Apps, and other segments where scale and performance are critical. Let’s walk through another gaming example. Consider a table named GameScores that keeps track of users and scores for a mobile gaming application. DynamoDB Refresher.

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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. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Brotli is widely supported, and many CDNs support it ( Akamai , AWS , KeyCDN , Fastly , Cloudlare , CDN77 ) and you can enable Brotli even on CDNs that don’t support it yet (with a service worker). 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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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Since launch, DynamoDB has been the core infrastructure powering various AWS and Amazon services and has provided more than 5 9s of availability worldwide. JSON has become the accepted medium for interchange between numerous Internet services. You could build a new gaming application that can support 15,000 monthly active users.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

Or a text adventure game. the internet in general. Facebook/Meta’s LLaMA, which is smaller than GPT-3 and GPT-4, is thought to have taken roughly one million GPU hours to train, which would cost roughly $2 million on AWS. And some of these things are mind blowing. It can pretend to be an operating system. It’s much more.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Brotli is widely supported, and many CDNs support it ( Akamai , AWS , KeyCDN , Fastly , Cloudlare , CDN77 ) and you can enable Brotli even on CDNs that don’t support it yet (with a service worker). 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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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Brotli is widely supported, and many CDNs support it ( Akamai , Netlify Edge , AWS , KeyCDN , Fastly (currently only as a pass-through), Cloudflare , CDN77 ) and you can enable Brotli even on CDNs that don’t support it yet (with a service worker). Not to mix up with Microsoft’s JPEG-XR coming from good ol' Internet Explorer 9 times).

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