All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. It will drive rapid innovation and well see a wealth of mobile, web and desktop applications arrive that we couldnt dream about a few years ago, and these building blocks are the enablers of that. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. 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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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

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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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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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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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. 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.

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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. I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. Know anyone who needs cloud?

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

We would still be building higher and higher on top of VMs because that's where platform innovation would have stopped evolving. We have several players like Cloudflare innovating to become alternative lower-cost cloud providers. For example, AWS created Nitro. So why bother innovating? They are different in kind.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. While a mobile device is almost always connected to the internet and reachable, a smart TV is only online while in use.

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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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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. 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. But, when it worked, it was magical. More after jump!

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. What used to be only available in physical formats now often has digital equivalents and this digitalization is driving great new innovations. All Things Distributed. Music to my Ears - Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The storage systems weve pioneered demonstrate extreme scalability while maintaining tight control over performance, availability, and cost. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Comments ().

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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.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let’s now look at the history behind the service and the context for new innovations that make me think that. We started with Amazon Dynamo, a simple key-value store that was built to be highly available and scalable to power various mission-critical applications in Amazon’s e-commerce platform. NoSQL and Scale.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. Also more details can be found on the AWS Developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 10, 2013

I am very excited to announce AWS Activate , a program designed to provide startups with the resources they need to build applications on AWS. Startups will forever be a very important customer segment of AWS. When we launched AWS the original mission was. We’re proud to have helped all startups achieve their goals.

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