Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Earlier this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in Montreal, Quebec. The AWS Cloud now operates in 40 Availability Zones within 15 geographic regions around the world, with seven more Availability Zones and three more regions coming online in China, France, and the U.K.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. One of the things that differentiates Amazon Web Services from other technology providers is its commitment to let customers benefits from continuous cost-cutting innovations and from the economies of scale AWS is able to achieve. Comments (). to $0.125 per Gigabyte.

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Storage AWS Innovation Scalability 112

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Legacy data center infrastructure and software support have kept all the benefits of ARM at, well… arm’s length. But take a look at the latest iterations of, for example, AWS Graviton2, which delivered a 40% price/performance boost, and Graviton3, which had an additional 27% price/performance improvement over Graviton2.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

With Amazon Web Services, the main sources from which to ingest logs—Simple Storage Service, or S3, and CloudWatch —come with an additional cost. As of today’s announcement, AWS and Dynatrace strengthen their commitment to their customers to continue to deliver quality and value. Learn more about VPC Flow Logs.

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Traffic AWS Network Cloud 215

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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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Driving this growth is the increasing adoption of hyperscale cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) and containerized microservices running on Kubernetes. Log analytics also help identify ways to make infrastructure environments more predictable, efficient, and resilient. Accelerated innovation. billion in 2020 to $4.1

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Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 209

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. Hybrid cloud environments that integrate on-premises infrastructure with cloud services.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. Monolithic applications earned their name because their structure is a single running application, which often shares the same physical infrastructure. Let’s break it down.

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Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 226

All Things Distributed

JUNE 26, 2016

In June 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in India. Market innovators and change agents need a comprehensive infrastructure platform that can reliably scale on-demand. Let’s build groundbreaking innovations together. The opportunity to revolutionize.

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AWS Cloud Healthcare Blockchain 90

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using Amazon RDS. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Whats unique and innovative about your service?

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Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In a time when modern microservices are easier to deploy, GCF, like its counterparts AWS Lambda and Microsoft Azure Functions , gives development teams an agility boost for delivering value to their customers quickly with low overhead costs. What is Google Cloud Functions? GCF is part of the Google Cloud Platform. Image courtesy of Google.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

Challenges of adopting OpenTelemetry The first challenge is that OpenTelemetry only gathers and processes data—it has no back end, no storage, and no analytics. This visibility extended across their distributed environment, including AWS Lambda and Microsoft Azure. For some services, this is pretty straightforward.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

When AWS launched, it changed how developers thought about IT services: What used to take weeks or months of purchasing and provisioning turned into minutes with Amazon EC2. Capital-intensive storage solutions became as simple as PUTting and GETting objects in Amazon S3. Our answer is a new compute service called AWS Lambda.

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Lambda AWS Cloud Scalability 136

All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

Driving Compute Cost Down for AWS Customers. AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world. Driving costs down for our customers is part of the DNA of Amazon and therefore also part of the DNA of AWS. Comments ().

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AWS Innovation Scalability Cache 110

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. To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals.

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Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper. Total Cost of Ownership.

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AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

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

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. Consistently we have lowered compute, storage and bandwidth prices based on such cost savings. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Cloud AWS Storage Innovation 63

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Other benefits: It has other benefits like a Quicker launch to the market, Easier distribution, saving device power and storage, seamless maintenance, and updating. Voice optimization for apps and websites and voice-activated self-standing devices are the latest innovations in web development. Famous PWA Use Examples. Image Source.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. Public sector.

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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

What would the world look like if all of our storage was in the cloud, and access to that storage was so fast we didn’t care? Respondents who have implemented serverless made custom tooling the top tool choice—implying that vendors’ tools may not fully address what organizations need to deploy and manage a serverless infrastructure.

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Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Cloud Infrastructure Services -- An analysis of potentially anti-competitive practices by Professor Frédéric Jenny. What some consider infrastructure or platform is just another cloud service. We would still be building higher and higher on top of VMs because that's where platform innovation would have stopped evolving.

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Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g., In AWS’ quest to enable the best data storage options for engineers, we have built several innovative database solutions like Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift.

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Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 137

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Once the models are created, you can get predictions for your application by using the simple API, without having to implement custom prediction generation code or manage any infrastructure. Details on the AWS Blog. AWS has been offering a range of storage solutions: objects, block storage, databases, archiving, etc.

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Lambda Cloud IoT AWS 122

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2019

They remain a cornerstone of IT infrastructure in many companies. At the same time, modern internet workloads have become more demanding and require several essential properties from infrastructure: Users want to start with a small footprint and then grow massively without infrastructure limiting their velocity.

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Database Design Cloud AWS 156

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2019

They remain a cornerstone of IT infrastructure in many companies. At the same time, modern internet workloads have become more demanding and require several essential properties from infrastructure: Users want to start with a small footprint and then grow massively without infrastructure limiting their velocity.

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Database Design Cloud AWS 147

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Given that AWS is a pioneer in building and operating these services world-wide, these lessons have been of crucial importance to our business. AWS helps its customers do this too.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB stores data on Solid State Drives (SSDs) and replicates it synchronously across multiple AWS Availability Zones in an AWS Region to provide built-in high availability and data durability. Customers can typically achieve average service-side in the single-digit milliseconds. History of NoSQL at Amazon â??

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The best part is that we are also significantly expanding the free tier many of you already enjoy by increasing the storage to 25 GB and throughput to 200 million requests per month. Let’s now look at the history behind the service and the context for new innovations that make me think that. NoSQL and Scale.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2014

We are rapidly entering into an era where massive computing power, digital storage and global network connections can be deployed by anyone as quickly and easily as turning on the lights. Cloud computing unlocks innovation within organisations of all types and sizes.

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Cloud Innovation AWS Government 123

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Recommendations.

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